HomeMy WebLinkAbout121823 email PT Aquatic Center ProjectHello Commissioners Eisenhour, Dean, and Brotherton,
Thank you for taking my comments today and thank you for your actions taken regarding the ILA. I believe that your actions are appropriate given the concerns that your constituents have
expressed regarding the direction that this project has taken so far.
I do have a question that I would like to get answered if any of you have the answer. How much money has been spent so far by the city, the county, and any other taxpayer funded agencies
to produce the information that we are all currently working with to understand and analyse the feasibility of the currently proposed PT Aquatic Center project? City Manager Mauro said
at an earlier BOCC meeting he attended that the city's "heavy lifting" towards project analysis was around $0.5 million. Commissioner Brotherton said in last week's BOCC meeting that
the county has spent $100k. These amounts, I assume, do not include the most recent costs for consulting work performed by DCW Cost Management for the cost analysis study to restore
and improve the existing Mountain View Pool facility, nor does it include the $18k approved today for the DOC financial feasibility review. Let's assume that the latest DCW consulting
work was $20k (probably more) for now. Director Hite has also suggested that a possible geotechnical analysis for the Mountain View site will be performed in January of 2024. If borings
are required as part of this analysis, which would be highly likely given the nature and extent of the construction work to be performed, this geotechnical analysis work could cost
around $40k (maybe more). If you were to even project out to next November and this project becoming a potential ballot measure with a revised major general election cost of say $75k,
plus another, I am completely guessing here, $40k for city and county staff time for assistance and counsel for a possible future "study team"/ advisory team, this would bring the potential
total PT Aquatic Center initial review process cost to around $793k. This would be before it is known whether there would be voter approval or not. Let's round that up to $800k for
possible unknown expenses. If the voter's say no, that's $800k out the window. If they say yes, I guess you could say this expense was value-added and maybe warranted. However, potential
project cost overruns might still be a factor as I have suggested as part of my review and analysis of the DCW Cost Management's estimated project costs to date. Like I said this morning
in my comments to you, voter approval for this project in its current state is not there as I know you are well aware.
To put this expenditure into perspective, the $800k would potentially build about three single family simple and affordable new homes in Jefferson County given today's market/ economy.
There are a number of ways this money could have been spent for the common good of our county/ community as a whole.
If you have a more precise total cost so far for my review, I would greatly appreciate having that information.
Thank you again for your service to our community, and Happy Holidays!
Mark L Grant
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