Barrie Council New Motion

from the Staff Report on Public Consultations related to the Marshall Green Report
 

On October 9th, 2024, at General Committee, Barrie Council received the Staff Report ACC001-24 concerning the results of the public consultations related to Marshall Green’s report, entitled The Southshore, Barrie Sports and a Revitalized Downtown, and further the following motion was passed unanimously at General Committee. The motion will be brought to Barrie Council at the October 23rd, 2024 meeting.

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Motion

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That notwithstanding previous Council decisions concerning the locations for a Performing Arts Centre and a Multi-Use Sports Field, the following be undertaken:

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a) That in light of the work completed to date by Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) on the Barrie Performing Arts Centre Programming and Concept Design Final Report and notwithstanding the requirements of the Procurement By-law, HPA be retained to complete a schematic design for a new Performing Arts Centre at the current Sea Cadets site at an estimated cost of $200,000 to be funded from the Theatre Reserve, and that the design be prepared with the following considerations:

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An approximately 45,000 sq. ft facility that includes both larger (600 seat) and smaller (250 seat) performance spaces.

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The facility be designed with a maximum total building cost of $65M in hard and soft construction costs for the building itself including fit out of all seating and audio visual components; and

 

b) That staff undertake the required site due diligence (including but not limited to geotechnical investigations) to determine the feasibility of utilizing the current Sea Cadets site and any required surrounding City lands for a new Performing Arts Centre, and the cost of such investigations to a maximum of $375,000 be funded from the Theatre Reserve.

 

c) That a Full Time Capital Project Manager be retained by Corporate Facilities immediately to coordinate the site due diligence investigations and schematic design work and the position be funded from the FC1138 Performing Arts Centre Redevelopment capital project/Theatre Reserve;

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d) That staff report back to General Committee with the results of the due diligence work and schematic design as well as the estimated required site works and a potential implementation plan.

 

2. That staff retain a consultant at an estimated cost of $250,000 with 30% of funding from Development Charges and 20% from the Tax Capital Reserve and half of the funding sourced from the Cash-in-Lieu Parkland Reserve to prepare a design concept and costing to locate a Multi-Use Sports Field at the Central Secondary School site to ensure that the field meets the minimum size requirements to accommodate a sports field of this nature and minimize impacts to the surrounding area and report back to General Committee.

 

3. That the Sea Cadets parade ground be removed as one of the uses for the proposed Multi-Use Sports Field and staff provide a concept including costs for locating a drill square with hard surface to the west of the John Hayter Southshore Centre as an extension to the parking lot and report back to General Committee.

 

4. That Development Services staff prepare a design concept to locate a passive park east of the General Hayter Southshore Community Centre to include a minimum of 2 acres of grass cut area, to allow for overflow parking for historical events that will occur on the property and accessible walkways through the naturalized area and report back to General Committee with the concept and costing.

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