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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 13, 2019 Page 15 the maintenance facility. It has been moved down the line every year because the City is not ready to invest two hundred thousand dollars in new fuel tanks if staff is not one hundred percent certain that in twenty or thirty years, the maintenance facility is going to be there. At some point, the City will have to make that in- vestment. Beyond that, the City is also spending about sixty thousand dollars a year on leasing space offsite for storage and in five years that will be three hun- dred thousand dollars. Those are some factors that do add up over time as the de- cision is delayed. Councilmember Laliberte stated she is taking this all in and a number of different ways for the City to go about that. She thought the questions of timing as to when certain triggers need to be pulled are important, but she did not think this should be done in a piecemeal fashion. She stated the City really does need to have a masterplan to strive for. Mayor Roe asked if it made sense to look at a master plan for the campus and specifically focusing on the license center, IT, maintenance and general storage. The Council agreed. Mayor Roe stated he did not want make light of the notion of potentially losing the Veterans Park site either and wants to be able to say the City is getting some benefit. Whether it is to the park system with a community center that the current maintenance facility could be turned into or whatever else it might be. He thought that was an important consideration as well as the Council and staff have these discussions. Mayor Roe asked if the Council wanted to direct staff to investigate getting the site master plan analysis process underway and develop and RFP for that. The Council was in agreement. Mayor Roe asked if it made sense to do a request for qualifications/information process first. Mr. Trudgeon stated it was and could be done and has been done before. Mayor Roe offered an opportunity for public comment. Mr. Roger Hess Jr., Mr. Hess stated it would be nice if the Council leaned the budget over the next couple of years in order to pay off the bonds earlier than 2029. In regard to the community center, he thought the private sector has pretty much covered every- thing that anyone has every talked about at a community center except for a small black box theater, which he thought the City could actually make money from.