As a result, city officials have asked to delay presenting a final report on the $38-million project until June 3. It was originally scheduled to be delivered to council on March 25.
THUNDER BAY – City council on Monday will be asked to push back a final report on the proposed indoor turf facility to June 3, after it was discovered a deeper foundation dig would be necessary due to soil conditions at the site.
A memorandum, prepared by director of engineering and operations Kayla Dixon, said the added cost still keeps the project within the city’s approved financing strategy for up to $44.6 million, though it would be over the $38 million upset limit for the facility, approved by council last November. "We have received reports on our geo-tech and our environmental studies and found that the new recommended foundation for the facility is actually a pile foundation and that does increase the cost of the original recommendation, which was a shallow foundation, by about $600,000," Dixon said on Thursday.
The delay would allow city officials to quantify and consider the change in the foundation recommendations and the soil impacts to the facility estimate.