CSS 2021-02-01 Item 1D - Project - Teen and Senior Center Update

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City of Tukwila Allan Ekberg, Mayor INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM TO: Community Services and Safety Committee CC: Mayor Ekberg FROM: Rachel Bianchi, Deputy City Administrator Nate Robinson, Teen Specialist DATE: January 26, 2021 SUBJECT: Update on Combined Teen and Senior Center Project ISSUE Staff is providing the Committee an update on this project. DISCUSSION During the 2021/2022 budget process, the Council provided direction that staff should begin the planning for a teen and senior center facility located in the Tukwila International Boulevard neighborhood. Staff returned with a preliminary outline as to how such direction could be achieved (see attached October 23, 2020 memo). Initial funding of $600 thousand for planning and community outreach associated with the center was included in the 2021/2022 budget. Since the passage of the biennial budget, staff has been working on initial project implementation with our project management partner, SOJ, including drafting a Request for Proposals (RFQ) for architectural services. Friday, January 29 is the deadline for the responses. The RFQ process will allow the City to select an architecture firm that will assist with initial planning, programming, site selection and cost estimates associated with the center. It is anticipated that the project team will bring the recommended firm to the Council in early March. In addition, the project team has been meeting with various outreach practitioners and consultants to identify the best partner for community outreach associated with this project. As mentioned in the initial project memo that went to the Council, the project team feels strongly that robust community engagement be a cornerstone of this planning effort. The project team is doing a limited RFQ call to determine whether an outside partner could boost the team's outreach efforts. The project team expects to begin outreach in February, which is expected to be intense for the first three to four months to gather information from the community. The team will then incorporate the feedback into the initial plans and go back out to the community in early fall to ask whether feedback was appropriately included. The team continues to expect to bring the project back to the Council during the fourth quarter of this year with programming, preliminary site selection, cost estimate and funding plan. RECOM MENDATION Information only. 81