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Juneau committee directs staff to draft mid-range options for Kahini playground after ADA, funding concerns
Summary
A joint Juneau City and Borough–Juneau School District facilities meeting directed staff to draft additional budget options for a playground at the Dezantecahini/Zontakihini site, with members citing ADA access, funding limits and a pending DEED regulation as central concerns.
Chair Wall, chair of the joint assembly–Juneau School District Facilities Committee, opened the committee’s discussion of the Kahini playground project and asked staff to develop additional design-and-construction options between the lowest-budget package and a higher-cost plan.
The committee voted, by unanimous consent, to direct staff to prepare additional options that fall between the $575,000 total package (the $75,000 design CIP plus a $500,000 construction allocation) and a $1.8 million option presented in the packet. Chair Wall said the additional options should “more completely…solve us care for the goals that we've discussed today” and the motion passed without a recorded roll-call vote.
The move follows months of planning and a range of proposals for the playground at the site variously referred to in the meeting as Dezantecahini or Zontakihini. Sheryl Koch, project manager with CBJ Engineering and Public Works, summarized the project history, saying the…
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