![]() The City of Bethel Multi-Use Recreation Facility Plan completed in 2005 identified a pool and full size gymnasium as the first and second most popular functions desired in a planned recreation facility. #3 Yukon Kuskokwim Fitness Center Gym and Track $10,500,000 The expected cost of constructing a new communication tower on police station property is estimated to be $500,000. In 2017, the City paid DOWL engineer firm to determine the best location for a communication tower on Bethel Police Station property and to design it.ĭOWL has since completed the design for a 90-foot-tall lattice tower supported by three pilings, as they recommended, and this design is ready for construction. ![]() The City of Bethel believes that constructing a new communication tower on city police station property is the preferred option in order to be able to control, protect, and fully utilize the tower strictly for public safety communications. The City pays $1,700 a month to KYUK Radio Station for tower space and over $400 a month to GCI to provide power and store its base station equipment in a heated shack. The City of Bethel rents tower space from the KYUK radio station for its public safety radio communication antennas attached to the KYUK Radio Station tower and houses its base station equipment inside a GCI communication shack at the base of the tower. #2 Public Safety Communication Tower $500,000 ![]() The City needs a new 52,000 square foot Public Works Building to effectively and efficiently deliver hauled water and sewer services to a growing population, maintain its water and sewer piped infrastructure that serves 420 properties, maintain and repair 18 miles of gravel road, maintain its 28 City-owned buildings, and repair/maintain its fleet of heavy equipment, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The City has poured a vast amount of funding into the building over the last ten years, including a $1.5 million floor repair, a $1 million boiler purchase and installation, and $1.2 million in summer 2021 to purchase and install a new backup generator and performed the immediate fixes recommended in the BBFM report.Ĭity municipal engineer Chase Nelson recommends in a memorandum dated October 4, 2019, that the City go forward with its plans to spend $1.5 million to replace the failed connectors, glulam beams, and girders, but points out that “the City eventually will need to replace the full facility, and needs to consider this as a long-term priority.” The cost of the fixes recommended in the BBFM report could be as high as $7 million and not fix everything long-term performed a structural and condition assessment on the Public Works Building in July 2019 and determined that some of the beam-to-girder connectors under the building have failed and “can no longer be relied upon to safely support vehicle loads.”Īfter the glulam beams and girders supporting the floor were tested for rot and decay, BBFM engineers Troy Feller and Greg Latreille, concluded that 120 metal hangers, 12 glulam beams, and 5 girders should be repaired, replaced, or reinforced in the next 1-2 years. Today, the City serves 6,362 people living in 1,920 households on 36 miles of roads–almost double the conditions found in 1983.īBFM Engineers, Inc. The Public Works Building was constructed in 1982 on creosote-soaked wood pilings and has exceeded its 30-year life expectancy The 29,000 square foot building was constructed for a community of Bethel that contained 3,595 people living in 1,000 households on 15 miles of road. The City of Bethel relies on its 29,000 square foot Public Works Building to house 12 water and sewer haul trucks, provide a full-service mechanic shop for the repair of gasoline and diesel vehicles (heavy equipment), storage and mechanic space for the Streets and Roads Division, a Property Maintenance Shop and storage area, and administrative offices The Bethel City Council requests that the State of Alaska provide the funding for the priorities in its FY 2024 Capital Budget. ![]() Dust Control Road Stabilization Measure: $2,450,000 Water Main Extension and Water Distribution Center: $15,548,000ĥ. Yukon Kuskokwim Fitness Center Gym and Track: $10,500,000Ĥ. Public Safety Communication Tower: $500,000ģ.
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