President DeMarche of Jamestown Community College presented plans for a phased joint athletic and wellness complex with the Jamestown Area YMCA, asking the City Council to sponsor a request to include Phase 1 in JCC’s SUNY capital request for the 2026–27 executive budget.

DeMarche said the project remains “roughly a $45,000,000 project” and recommended splitting the work into phases so JCC portions can move forward while the YMCA continues fundraising. “In the first phase…we're looking to turf 2 fields,” she said, describing one field that would be overlaid for softball and the other for baseball so the college can host multiple outdoor sports on the same footprint. She added that if the governor’s budget and public RFAs align, “by next fall, we may have fields to play.”

The resolution DeMarche described is titled a request for inclusion of construction of Phase 1 of the proposed JCC wellness complex in JCC’s SUNY capital request for the 2026–27 executive budget; she said the county has already passed a companion resolution. Council members were told the sponsorship is a formal approval by the city as one of JCC’s regional sponsors, not a pledge of municipal funds.

Council leadership confirmed the action is a support resolution and “doesn't require any financial support from the city.” DeMarche said JCC is proceeding into the design phase and expects public RFAs and additional project details to follow after the governor’s capital budget is finalized.

Next steps: the resolution text will be reviewed by staff and placed on an upcoming work session agenda for formal consideration. If the SUNY capital process and the governor’s budget proceed as hoped, JCC expects to request construction funding for the first phase and to issue public RFAs tied to that stage.