DEPARTMENT: Parks
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Professional Services Contract With Bloom Companies, LLC For Lake Byllesby Regional Park Campground Building Design
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of a professional services contract with Bloom Companies, LLC to provide architectural and engineering design services on the Lake Byllesby Campground Building project.
SUMMARY
The adopted 2025-2029 Parks Capital Improvement Program (CIP) includes a project to look at the replacement or renovation of campground buildings in Lebanon Hills and Lake Byllesby Regional Parks. This project was funded through the Metropolitan Council's Regional Bonding Modernization Grant Program and through a county match. Grant funds expire on June 30, 2027.
To help prioritize needs, Locus Architecture was hired to review several campground buildings; their report, "Campground Buildings and Beach House Replacement Study" (Study) was finalized in late 2024. This study was an internal document used to look at building needs, establish a building program, and develop preliminary pricing.
The outcome of this study includes the replacement of four buildings that will be in a future project request at both the Lebanon Hills and Lake Byllesby Regional Parks.
The fifth building is a replacement of one of the Lake Byllesby campground buildings. The Study and Master Plan support this building which includes a severe weather shelter component. This project will construct a campground building that will include a severe weather shelter to accommodate all campers and campground guests that will also include restrooms with showers.
Other local, regional, and national campgrounds have designed and built severe weather shelters in recent years. Dakota County campgrounds are not equally equipped. Currently, to offer some level of shelter during inclement weather, campers at Lake Byllesby Campground crowd into the restrooms in the camp office. While...
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