Delafield moves ahead with "social stairs" design for city hall entrance

The Delafield Common Council on May 5 was told that the plan commission selected a "social stairs" design for replacement of the city hall entrance stairs. City Administrator Tom Heffner said the concept includes planters at the top and seating areas on the right and left thirds of the current stairs, leaving the central third as the primary stairway.

Heffner told council members the project will move into full-scale structural design over the next month, then be reviewed by the Public Works Committee in June. The city expects to go to bid after design and to begin construction in late August with a requirement that the work be substantially complete by mid-October.

The design choice and schedule were presented in the meeting packet and discussed at the plan commission meeting the prior week, Heffner said. The council did not take a separate final vote on the design at the May 5 meeting; Heffner described the next steps as design, bidding and anticipated construction timing.

The project will be administered through the city's capital program; the city has completed a separate capital note sale discussed earlier in the meeting that yielded a slightly lower borrowing need after applying a premium. The transcript does not record a specific contractor selection or a bid award at the May 5 meeting.