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Juneau committee approves staff direction to transfer CIP funds toward Burns Building renovation
Summary
The Finance Committee directed staff to reassign several CIP accounts and to appropriate $2 million to deferred maintenance so the borough can fund an $8.5M–$13M renovation of the Burns Building; an amendment to restore $525,000 to the Lemon Creek multimodal path failed 4–5.
City Manager Katie Kester presented updated cost estimates for renovating the previously approved Burns Building purchase and asked the committee to authorize transfers from existing CIP accounts to fund immediate renovations.
Kester said a full reverse reconfiguration of the Burns Building had escalated to an estimate near $20 million and that staff were advocating for a partial remodel with a target cost brought down to $8.5 million through value engineering. To move forward without undermining core maintenance needs, she proposed sweeping specific CIP balances (Capital Civic Center, North State office building parking garage, Waterfront…
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