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Keller council approves sports-park change order, trims new restroom to four stalls
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Summary
City Council approved change order No. 3 for Keller Sports Park to add amenities including a restroom, signage, bollards and acoustic improvements and agreed to reduce the proposed restroom from six to four stalls to save roughly $100,000 while retaining needed capacity.
Keller — The Keller City Council on Dec. 2 approved change order No. 3 to the construction-manager-at-risk agreement with Dean Construction to reestablish a guaranteed maximum price for additional amenities at Keller Sports Park, including a new restroom building, monument signage, field signage, vehicular bollards, renovated batting cages, fencing at Field 12 and acoustical work in the field house.
City staff presented renderings of a six-stall restroom and a price breakdown by size, and explained the project would be funded first from interest earned on the city’s 2024 bond series and supplemented with ARPA interest, savings from other parks projects, KDC fund balance, water/wastewater/tree-preservation funds and park CIP funds. “The only thing that we are allowed to spend that money on is Sports Park,” city staff (S8) said, describing the roughly $1.3 million in bond interest the city proposed to use for park amenities.
Council members debated restroom sizes at length. City staff (S4) showed what a six-stall layout would look like and urged the council to choose a solution that matched anticipated activity; one councilmember (S3) said “I think the 6 is the minimum we’d wanna do.” Another councilmember (S7) warned of the optics and practical problems of undersizing facilities: “I hate to spend 45,000,000 and then have a bunch of people standing at trees doing their business, because we cheaped out at the last minute on bathrooms,” he said.
After discussion about usage, aesthetics and cost, the council coalesced around four stalls as a compromise between capacity and budget. A consent motion that bundled F1–F8 and amended item F5 (the change order) to specify four stalls passed as part of the consent agenda.
Staff also described non-restroom components of the change order: monument signage near the lacrosse field, custom soccer-field signs, remote field-lighting controls to prevent unauthorized overnight use, vehicular bollards to deter on‑site driving across pedestrian paths, and acoustical treatments in the field house intended to reduce echoing and improve speech intelligibility during events. Staff said the improvements include a 5% contingency and that some maintenance-yard work had earlier funding commitments; staff will reconcile fund allocations and report back on any remaining funding gaps.
The council’s action authorizes the change order and the associated funding plan; staff said they will finalize design details and adjust related contract documents to reflect the four‑stall restroom chosen by the council.
