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?‘ <br />n!■;•»* , <br />■\-m <br />.; • JM. <br />'-W I_ _ _ _ <br />^SF <br />CITY FACILITIES CHART OBSERVATIONS <br />Source of cost estimates: Zack Johnson, AIA, Vice President EOS <br />Architecture Corporation of Excelsior, Minnesota, and the 1990 <br />edition of Means Square Foot Costs. <br />The chart clearly indicates that Orono, a city with approximately <br />41 eraoloyees and a population of 7400, would be treated . <br />generously by the recently proposed plan for « <br />losSng pproximately $3,700,000. The plan for a city hall <br />and public works building as large, or larger, than some cities <br />several times larger than Orono. As larger ®^je usually mean <br />hitther costs this plan seems incompatable with Orono s tradition <br />o£®80und conUrvative fiscal management <br />Long other things, the availability of dollars <br />in fSnds for a new facility, (page 1 of October l*. 1990, ^ty <br />administrators communication to city council). Aimtnirn^rrt’ B <br />% <br />It would appear that on a comparative basis, dineinah e?to of its olan for a new city administration/police building <br />from 18 000 to 10 000 Sq.Ft. and the public works building coul <br />If vou consider the above reductions in size for the <br />national average building costs, Lich now are about the <br />ff1Sr^f ‘'El^nii^5r.ff-er?:‘aboi^t^?LJL'tL tSL fouowlng <br />numbers B^?Id?nrbrick, 10,000 Sq.Ft. @$80.00-$800 ,000 <br />Public works Building, 15.000Jq.Ft..,140.000 <br />Broken Concrete Exterior „^heated 11,000 Sq.Ft.@$30.00 “$330,000 <br />Total Cost $1,270,000 <br />The verv laree savings could then:be used to help pay for higher <br />SLISonil los“ £« the new facilities, or other l-t"® n®|ds, <br />wLle continuing to hold down government expenses and taxes for <br />Orono citizens. <br />The building of a smaller facility would also make the <br />Sly hall site more practical because there sould b® ®”Pl® ®P®^®* <br />5heVresent site of 2.5 acres or 107,500 Sq.Ft. would be covered <br />by 25,000 Sq. Ft., or less, leaving over 75% of land space for <br />parking, parks, green space, etc. <br />Honefullv this information will initiate new points of discussion <br />on^^the new city facilities question as we approach 1991 and a new <br />round of discussions. <br />T^e Orono Taxpayers Association <br />tr i >iTii a^litiinT ih