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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 13, 2019 Page 11 Mr. Paschke stated staff will work on adding what was discussed and will go for- ward to the Planning Commission and then the City Council. d. Discuss the City's Facility and Space Needs City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related attachments dated May 13, 2019. Mayor Roe thought a couple of things that might be helpful to know before dis- cussion is the period of payback for the parks and fire station bonds and when that ends. Mr. Trudgeon indicated that will end in 2029. Mayor Roe stated in terms of the Public Works study, he did have a question that came up in the initial presentation which he has not had a chance to ask. He re- ferred to the Public Works Facility Study report, page 8, under the building addi- tions with projected needs chart, the chart continues to grow based on the past growth of that facility and he has to believe, as a built out community, at some point the City is going to maximize the things that need to be maintained and the amount of equipment needed to maintain it. He wondered if that is projected on- going continuous growth really what the facility study was based on or is there some reasonable size that Staff can settle on. Mr. Culver agreed and said he had a similar thought that should have been modi- fied. If looking at the trend, even though the City has been a relatively built out City for the past twenty to thirty years, there has still been a continuing need for growth and part of that could probably indicate the City was undersized for a long period of time and steps are being made to try to catch up to where we should be. He actually looks at it more along the lines of some of the other analysis in the re- port and gets the City to the one hundred to one hundred twenty thousand square foot number based on it is not just a matter of adding vehicles or adding employ- ees or things like that it is looking to the future to see what can save time and money such as purchasing a salt brine machine rather than buying salt brine from the County. This will save money but will also create a need for more space. Those are some of the things in looking at new initiatives. Some of the things are required, some are unfunded mandates that come from the State or different agen- cies requiring new equipment sometimes and that is what Public Works Staff is looking at. He stated hopefully the City is able to phase out some of the older equipment that is not being used. Based on past experience Staff does not want to say there is a never-ending growth, but he did think the City will hit that sweet spot of one hundred to one hundred twenty thousand square feet and will serve the City will for a long period of time.