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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 14, 2016 Page 24 may make more sense as a better option for the city given those pending issues, and asked for staff’s feedback on that. Mr. Culver advised that the Fire Station roof had been reviewed and what could be installed, but noted that it would be a much smaller installation. Even with an installation on the City Hall/Police Department and Public Works Maintenance facilities, Mr. Culver advised that those sizes of installations were considered “small potatoes” for Kenyon to work on; therefore the attempt was to make the installation as large as possible. Mr. Culver reported that the only reason the city was able have Kenyon consider this smaller project was that they were seeing it as an extension of a larger system in the area. While it would not be impossible to bring the Fire Station into the equation, Mr. Culver noted it would change the economics. While not having gotten into much detail at this point, Mr. Culver further reported that in initial discussions with City Manager Trudgeon, even if the existing Public Works Maintenance facility was repurposed and the mainte- nance function moved elsewhere, the shell of the building wouldn’t change and simply involve walls and interior space reconfiguration and repurposing. Without having talked to an architect on-site, Mr. Culver opined that adding a second floor to the Public Works Maintenance facility as it is designed would be difficult and expensive. While agreeing that the Maintenance facility is basically a large garage, and also agreeing that it probably wasn’t feasible to add a second floor, Mayor Roe noted one outcome of the pending facilities study may be that the shell of the building is no longer there; thus addressing the city’s risk level. Mr. Culver agreed that may be a possibility; but opined it would be more cost- effective to repurpose the existing building, after formal discussions with an ar- chitect about that feasibility. Mr. Culver noted part of that could involve lowering the tall ceilings of installing a false ceiling lower and repurposing the open space into a License Center or some other use. However, Mr. Culver noted the intent was that repurposing the building wasn’t necessarily exclusive for installation of solar panels and keeping them operational for the twenty-five year term of the in- stallation. At the notice of Councilmember McGehee and previous discussions earlier today, Mr. Culver advised that the preliminary financial analysis predictions of the twen- ty-five years of the long-term PPA program shown as $105,000 (RCA, page 2, line 39) was inaccurate, and was actually $242,000. Councilmember McGehee further noted the exit clause detailed in line 98 of the RCA and the projected $242,000 didn’t appeal to her; opining she liked the previ- ous lottery program as a smaller experiment to begin with.