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Committee pauses appropriation of 706 Mission Street funds for Gene/Friend Recreation Center, seeks legal and financial clarifications
Summary
Supervisors continued an ordinance to appropriate roughly $1.7 million from a development-payment account (the 706 Mission Street fund) after questions whether those monies were already appropriated and whether a 2013 development agreement required a prior community process. RPD staff said the funds were encumbered for the project; the City Attorney said the fund's community process may not apply retroactively.
The Budget & Finance Committee voted to continue an ordinance that would appropriate roughly $1.7 million from the 706 Mission Street account to support the Gene/Friend Recreation Center and to allocate approximately $862,000 to the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development and roughly $862,000 to Recreation & Park for FY2022—2023.
Melinda Stockman Sullivan, project manager with the Recreation & Park Department—s Capital and Planning Division, presented the Jean/Gene Friend Recreation Center replacement design, a proposed new building of roughly 24,000 square feet with two indoor gyms, multipurpose rooms and other amenities. She described a complicated budget built from the 2020 Health & Recovery bond, development impact fees…
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