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Parks department to use food-and-beverage funds to relocate donated 48x80 pole barn to Pioneer Park
Summary
The council approved using food-and-beverage funds and contingency from a park build-operate-transfer project to move and rebuild a donated 48-by-80-foot pole barn in Pioneer Park; the parks department estimated the total project at $236,428 and said the work would remain within the $4.2 million project guaranteed maximum price (GMP).
The Mooresville Town Council voted Sept. 16 to allow the parks department to use food-and-beverage funds and project contingency to move a donated 48-by-80-foot pole barn into Pioneer Park as part of the ongoing build-operate-transfer (BOT) project.
Parks staff said the Blythe family has offered the barn at no charge and would not accept payment. The parks department requested $176,350 from its food-and-beverage allocation and reported total expected costs for dismantling, transport, reconstruction, spray-foam insulation, utilities, and associated engineering and permitting at $236,428 (construction $202,428 plus $34,000 engineering/permits). The parks director told the council the BOT project has a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) of $4,200,000 and that current contingencies leave about $600,000 unallocated within that GMP.
“The price, of that 202 includes concrete floor, spray foam insulation, electrical installed… That is lights. That is electrical, 12 outlets, installed,” the parks director explained to the council. He said a comparable new structure would cost about $151,500 for the shell alone and that moving and reconstructing the donated building represented a savings compared with building new.
Council members asked whether the parks department could fund the relocation from its own reserves and whether approving the change order would create future funding requests. Parks staff and council agreed the department already had funds in its allocated BOT contingency and in food-and-beverage funds for 2025; the parks director said some pool and playground maintenance projects remain outstanding and that those needs would still be evaluated.
After discussion, a council member moved to approve the parks request to use the food-and-beverage funds to complete the barn relocation; another council member seconded the motion. The motion carried on an affirmative vote.
Parks staff committed to return with more detailed line-item costs for other upcoming maintenance projects at the next meeting. The council did not require immediate additional appropriations beyond the approved change-order funding.
