City Council Meeting Date: June 18, 2019
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Ben Martig, City Administrator
Title
Request for City Participation in FiftyNorth Future Space and Programming Planning Process.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council discusses the FiftyNorth future planning.
Summary Report:
City Administrator Martig has met with Lynne Pederson, FiftyNorth Director as a follow up to the worksession discussion on May 14, 2019. The memo and background materials are attached from that meeting.
At that meeting, representatives of FiftyNorth Future Planning Committee presented information on their exploration to "determine what programs should be offered and what kind of space will be needed for those programs." The information also explained that the committee will be accomplishing their work in the following four phases:
1. Fact finding;
2. Space design;
3. Capital campaign and partnerships;
4. Construction and reconfiguration.
The first phase is underway with regular meetings (every 2 weeks generally) with intention for the committee to provide a report in September of 2019 to the FiftyNorth board of directors and the City Council related to their first phase.
Based on the discussions with Ms. Pederson and past presentations, City Administrator Martig is suggesting that it would not be a prudent use of resources to assign representatives from the City (staff, council, etc.) to this committee at this time. Staff would be meeting monthly with Ms. Pederson to receive updates and determine if any updates to the City Council would be appropriate before the "fact finding" report is completed.
Staff is suggesting that the City have much more formal involvement during the space design phases. We believe it will be advantageous to have a close relationship on any architectural design work as well as exploring potential changes in uses for existing or other uses in the facility related to the school district tenants and others potentially...
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