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Timnath council adopts 2034 facilities master plan, citing recreation center feasibility and $3 million Hall upgrades
Summary
The Timnath Town Council approved a facilities master plan that reorganizes town offices, advances a proposed recreation center and includes roughly $3 million in proposed upgrades to Town Hall to accommodate staff growth.
The Timnath Town Council on a 3-0 vote approved Resolution No. 37, Series 2025, adopting a 10-year facilities master plan intended to guide municipal building uses, staffing locations and future capital investments through 2034.
Consultant Lindsay Salazar of Gensler & Associates presented the plan, saying, “This is not a wash, rinse, and repeat process,” and describing the work as rooted in interviews, site tours and department needs assessments.
The plan responds to projected staff growth and changing work patterns: Salazar and staff told the council the town expects roughly 75 new positions over the next 10 years and recommended reusing and reconfiguring existing buildings before constructing new ones. Under the recommendation, two departmental groups now housed at the police building would move into Town Hall to centralize public-facing services; a new recreation center would become the primary home for Parks and Recreation (and some Public Works or events staff); and the Goodman Building would transition toward maintenance and fleet functions after those moves.
Town staff and the consultant described phasing and alternatives. Salazar said the rec-center project informed the preferred scenario but that the master plan includes an appendix with an alternative if the rec center does not proceed. Council members asked that those alternative costs be available as the town moves into public conversations about financing. Finance and project-detail items such as an estimated $3,000,000 of proposed upgrades to expand Town Hall to accommodate Human Resources, IT and Public Works administration were noted during discussion.
Council members praised the plan as a “living document” that should be revisited as conditions change. Council member Bill Jenkins said he was impressed with the candidates for the open police chief position earlier in the day; Council member Lisa Lake and Mayor Robert Oxmacher participated in interviews and joined praise for the master plan work. The council voted to adopt the plan unanimously, with three members voting in favor and two members absent.
Next steps cited by staff include incorporating the plan into capital budgeting and using the facility-condition assessments (conducted as part of the master-plan work) to begin an asset-management program.
