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Assembly sends Burns Building purchase ordinance to full assembly and directs design work for interior remodel
Summary
The committee moved ordinance 2025-39 (purchase of two floors of the Burns Building) to the assembly (6–2). The assembly also directed the city manager to begin design for a full interior remodel (option 3), and asked for more detailed cost estimates for both reversed and nonreversed layouts.
City Manager Kester presented the staff memo and timeline for acquiring two floors of the Burns Building and associated parking. Kester said the purchase price under current negotiations is $9,300,000 plus a $2,700,000 sinking-fund contribution; she summarized expected renovation costs ranging from a minimal-move option to a full interior remodel.
Kester described the full interior remodel estimate as $7.6 million (carpet, paint, furniture, cubicles and move costs) and said that initial earlier estimates for a lighter renovation had been significantly lower. “The kind of full interior remodel is at $7,600,000,” Kester said.
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