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Committee backs $1.47 million design contract for municipal building renovation

6490442 · October 8, 2025
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The Finance Committee recommended Monday approving a Plan 1 Architects contract not to exceed $1,474,550 to design a full renovation of Cheyenne’s municipal building; one councilmember opposed forwarding the recommendation without broader council discussion about staff displacement and alternate temporary space.

The Cheyenne Finance Committee recommended approval of a professional services agreement with Plan 1 Architects to design a complete renovation of the municipal building, with a not-to-exceed design fee of $1,474,550 drawn from the 2021 specific purpose option tax fund.

Adele Bartel, public works staff engineer, told the committee the project scope for the design contract is a “complete renovation” that would involve gutting non-load-bearing walls, replacing mechanical and electrical systems and producing a new layout and future-proofed HVAC. “All the mechanical will be coming out, electrical. Everything is gonna come out, and they will do redo a new complete new design, complete new layout,”…

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