Title
Approval of a Resolution Authorizing an Agreement with Berger Partnership for Construction Administration Support Services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park)
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve a Resolution authorizing an agreement with Berger Partnership for construction administration support services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park).
Report
Issue:
Whether to approve a Resolution authorizing an agreement with Berger Partnership for construction administration support services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park).
Staff Contact:
Laura Keehan, Director of Parks Planning & Maintenance, Parks, Arts and Recreation, 360.570.5855
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
The Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly known as Yelm Highway Community Park) project is completing final steps prior to construction. This contract is to provide construction administration support services associated with construction of the first phase of park improvements. Phase 1 Park Improvements include:
• Park maintenance office and shop buildings, and supporting elements such as parking, fencing, materials storage, and covered storage.
• One full-size, lighted, synthetic turf soccer field with all necessary associated items such as netting and goals.
• Thirteen pickleball courts and associated items such as seating, site furnishings, fencing, and gates.
• Two full-size basketball courts.
• One mini-pitch soccer field (Sounders RAVE Foundation funded) and associated interactive play equipment.
• One restroom building that also accommodates storage and food truck support.
• One picnic shelter.
• 9,000 SF Playground.
• Paved loop pathways.
• All associated furnishings (bike racks, seating, picnic tables).
• One dog park with fencing, gates, and other required amenities.
• One asphalt paved parking lot and one gravel parking lot to support activities at the north end of the park as well as the dog park.
• Art incorporated into the landscape (1% for the Arts Program).
Climate Analysis:
The park maintenance buildings will utilize electric heat pumps and be built solar ready. Electric vehicle parking stalls will be provided in both the park maintenance facility parking area, as well as the main parking lot for park users. Additionally, the park site hosts a bus stop on Yelm Highway. Locating community parks in urban areas close to residences reduces the distance of vehicle trips and protects forest and agriculture resource lands in the County from urban development.
Landscaping at the site will be drought-tolerant and the soccer field will utilize synthetic turf which does not require fertilizer or watering. The existing forest area and wetland located at the southern end of the park site will be preserved, thus providing climate and habitat benefits.
Equity Analysis:
Parks play an important role in the community as places that are free and open to the public for social connection and gathering, physical and mental health, and preservation and connection with nature. Team sports for both youth and adults support community building. This park has been chosen as a location for a Sounders RAVE Foundation soccer mini-pitch. A mini-pitch allows small groups of informal pick-up play and the Foundation commits to free, ongoing youth programming at the mini-pitch. Thurston County Pickleball Association also offers free weekly pickleball lessons for community members.
Neighborhood/Community Interests (if known):
The community identified acquisition and development of a large community park site for soccer fields as a high priority in 2002, 2010, 2016 and 2022 Parks, Arts and Recreation Plans. In the City’s 2014 Community Park Site Suitability Assessment, the Yelm Highway parcel ranked as the preferred site for a new community park.
Over a thousand community members participated in the Yelm Highway Community Park Master Plan process that occurred from 2019-2022. Soccer players, pickleball players and neighbors from The Hamptons and Indian Summer neighborhoods have also shown particular interest in the site.
Financial Impact:
This contract will provide construction administration support for the Phase 1 Park Improvements. The contract will utilize $ 657,479.15 of parks capital funding.
The Phase 1 Park Improvements project has received $2,850,000 in grant funds for construction and $87,000 in community and foundation donations for construction of the park.
Options:
1. Move to approve a Resolution authorizing an agreement with Berger Partnership for construction administration support services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park).
2. Move to approve, with modifications, a Resolution authorizing an agreement with Berger Partnership for construction administration support services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park).
3. Do not approve a Resolution authorizing an agreement with Berger Partnership for construction administration support services at Jolene Unsoeld Community Park (formerly Yelm Highway Community Park).
Attachments:
Resolution
Agreement