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Council reviews concept to build new city hall on existing city-owned lot; public asks exploration of historic building options

2714259 · March 4, 2025
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Summary

City staff presented a concept to demolish and replace a city-owned building near the library with a new city hall and to reassign the current city-hall building to the police department. Residents urged staff to evaluate restoring an existing historic building and to provide more cost comparisons before deciding.

City staff presented a conceptual plan Feb. 18 to build a new city hall on a city-owned parcel near the library, using a design based on a nearby Farm Bureau–style building, and to move the police department into the current city-hall facility.

Staff said the preferred site is a city-owned one-block parcel with an existing but partially unusable building; replacing that building with a new structure of roughly 3,400 square feet would provide longer-term space for administrative functions and a larger public meeting…

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