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City manager reports: hospital remediation, Danko affordable housing, wastewater plant damage and library archive issues
Summary
City Manager Todd updated the council on remediation of the old hospital site and upcoming RFP for developers, progress on Danko affordable housing financing and timeline, copper-line damage at the wastewater treatment plant, and efforts to resolve archival storage issues between the library and Sisson Museum.
City Manager Todd provided a series of operational updates during council and staff comments.
He said Park Environmental confirmed the old hospital site has been remediated and cleared and that the Bay Area receivership group is assembling an RFP to select a developer based on track record and proposed plans. Todd said Danko affordable housing is back on track with a mix of tax credits, the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA), county grant funds and a low-interest bond award; the developer aims to break ground in early June.
Todd reported a new issue at the wastewater treatment plant: a frozen copper line perforated due to cold and is under repair. City staff and the project engineer (PACE Engineering) have met with the plant contractor and emphasized the expectation that the contractor take responsibility for fixing the system regardless of warranty status. Todd said the wastewater project certification as a rural EIFD is complete.
Todd also said the Friends of the Library received a risk assessment from the Northeast Document Conservation Center that identified concerns about archival storage of Sisson Museum materials in the library vault; Todd will convene the library and museum to craft a formal agreement to allow insured storage and protect those collections.
Other updates included work on a revised city fee schedule and forming an ad hoc committee to preflight proposed fee changes, and a staffing note that a contact at a partner organization had been hospitalized and outreach continued.
