A bill for an ordinance approving an Agreement with Interlock Construction Corporation for renovation of the former animal shelter for use as a Parks Department storage and maintenance facility. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Approves a $749,565.42 contract with Interlock Construction Corp for renovation of the former animal shelter as a Parks Department storage and maintenance facility located at 678 South Jason Street in Council District 7 (201416785). The last reguarly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 10-27-14. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 8-28-14.
I just have a question. Go it. And I'm not sure who is here from, um, parks and Rec. It's, it's actually more of a budget question than it is an operational question. So we're spending three quarters of $1,000,000 on renovation of the old animal shelter, but yet we still have not been briefed on what the plan is for the 24 seven Reston Resource Center for the Homeless Community. And, uh, I see Sky over here from the administration wanting to answer the question when are we going to get briefed on what's happening with that in terms of timing and all of that? Because I understand it may involve acquisition of a different building. And I had raised questions about if we were going to be spending money to do major renovation, why wouldn't we be looking at this facility? Councilman Ortega Sky Stuart, Mayor's Office. We did actually look at all the existing real estate holdings in the city and they didn't work. Operationally for what. We're looking for. And that's why we're now looking for property that the city does not own. Evan Dreier and I are happy to come brief you at any time to talk about the 24 hour rest and resources. We are in negotiations to. Acquire a site. And when we have that site under contract will obviously be coming through to brief you on that site acquisition, but happy to come chat with you in the meantime. I appreciate it because I did send a note to Betty Milner some time ago when our last scheduled homeless commission meeting was canceled, expressing concern that we weren't going to be given the opportunity to, you know, allow the commissioners to talk about this and hear what was going on. So I appreciate that. Thank you. We'll catch up some time with you. Thank you. Councilmember two Councilwoman Robb, did you have a question? I just wanted to confirm with Mark Tabor or Skye, perhaps these are bond dollars. If people wonder, you know, that we're pulling $792,000 out of the sky, there's $4, I believe that was surplus from the animal shelter bond issue. That that's right, Councilwoman. There was a portion of the funding to do the initial demolition and abatement of hazardous materials that were part of the site. The the CIP. Program is the is the major component. Of this restoration final phase of actually re. Rehabilitating the building for use for our maintenance and our operational uses. So this particular contract. Is is all the AP dollars but but formally. The some of the demolition work and some of the previous. Work that went into. To prepping the building to be re restored and and. Abating some of the hazardous materials were bond funded. Thank you. Could you introduce yourself for the record? I'm sorry. Mark Taber, Parks and Rec. Thank you. Sorry. With that, I'll have to run. Yes, thank you. So you know the questions on that one. I do have one other quick question. I'm sorry. Go right ahead, Councilman. So where are the maintenance operations now that are going to be moving to this site? Where are they coming from? They're coming from actually across the street. There's a there's a facility that has a forest, primarily a forestry facility park on South Jason. There's also Jason Street North, which is up closer to Pecos that houses are the mower shop, the athletic. Fields and. Consolidating everything into. One. And we're consolidating and and bringing them closer in a more central location. In in the south JSON property. Okay. Thank you. You bet. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, are there any other questions on 692 scene? And remember that activity up to next one 712 but called out by councilmembers Ortega and shepherd and I just I'll start with Ortega did you want to call this out or do Councilwoman Shepherd did you want to call it out or did