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Staff recommend City Hall move to Legacy Church, library to Town Square as part of facilities master plan update
Summary
City staff and consultants presented an updated facilities master plan recommending moving City Hall into the Legacy Church building, building a new library at Town Square and expanding police facilities; council asked for more valuation detail and directed staff to return with design work authorization.
City staff and BCRA consultants presented an updated facilities master plan to the Liberty Lake City Council on June 3 that lays out two multi-year options to address shortfalls in city administrative, library and public-safety space.
The staff-preferred option would place City Hall functions in the recently acquired Legacy Church building, construct a new library at Town Square and expand the police department into the library’s current footprint. The city would reassign parks and related operations into portions of the existing city hall building.
Why it matters: staff and the consultants say Liberty Lake faces a roughly 21,000-square-foot shortfall across City Hall, police, public works and library space as the city grows. The options shown at the meeting differ in cost and phasing: the BCRA estimate for the option that relocates City Hall to Legacy and places a new library in Town Square was presented as roughly $28.7 million in…
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