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Council deprograms Philippine Court street project; redirects savings to Mexican American Cultural Center and art museum HVAC work
Summary
The council authorized deprogramming the proposed Philippine Court reconstruction — a private-drive project that residents declined to dedicate — and approved transferring project savings to the Mexican American Cultural Center (MAC) and associated art-museum HVAC and related work.
The council authorized the city manager or designee to deprogram the proposed Philippine Court street reconstruction and transfer the resulting budget savings to the Mexican American Cultural Center (MAC) project and to Museums and Cultural Affairs Department art museum HVAC replacement work.
City staff said Philippine Court is an unpaved private drive whose residents declined to dedicate the right-of-way; the project had been identified in a 2012–13 bond program but was never completed. Yvette Hernandez (Capital Improvement Department) corrected an earlier figure and said the project savings totaled $797,632. She explained exhibit allocations on the backup: an amount identified as project savings for the art museum (about $113,000) and other allocations to the MAC and art-museum needs. Ben Fife, managing director for Quality of Life, said staff will announce the official opening date for the combined MAC/public library footprint in the coming weeks and that staff are already moving into parts of the building.
Council approved the reprogramming unanimously. Hernandez listed uses for the MAC allocation, including water-softening and reverse-osmosis equipment for humidifiers, installing artist names on a glass wall, purchasing public kiosks and cleaning/disinfecting furniture for the public library component.
