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Kemper Center repairs, chapel work and shoreline plan move to phased approach after federal grant change
Summary
County parks and project staff told supervisors the Kemper Center chapel repairs will go to bid after specs are delivered in September and that the county will pursue a phased shoreline repair approach after a FEMA program was canceled, citing an estimated total cost near $34 million in original designs.
County parks staff and vendors updated the committee on repairs and studies at the Kemper Center and on designs for the adjacent shoreline, saying the chapel repairs will be bid after specifications are delivered and that the shoreline plan will shift to a phased approach after a federal grant opportunity was canceled.
Supervisor-level questions focused on timing, historic-preservation requirements for work in the chapel, budget lines available for Kemper projects, and whether a multi-phase shoreline approach would raise total costs compared with completing work all at once.
Parks staff said they combined two planned studies into a single facility-condition assessment to simplify the work and to ensure specialists who understand the Kemper Center's status as a nationally registered historic building can…
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