July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Improvements come to city hall (2/26/04)
Improvements come to city hall (2/26/04)
City officials don’t mind the exposed wall studs or wires hanging from the ceiling of their Portland City Hall offices, because they know how nice it will look when the renovations are complete.
New carpeting and a fresh coat paint are planned for the building’s main hallway and the offices of Portland Mayor Bruce Hosier, administrative assistant Stephanie Arnold and city clerk-treasurer Barbara Blackford. Blackford’s office also will be enlarged to 14 feet by 12 feet from its current size of 11 feet by nine feet.
“(The renovations will) enhance what we think city government should represent,” Hosier said Monday in his office which has been stripped to the studs. “It is important that the city hall represents professionalism.”
The Portland Board of Works accepted the $22,014 project bid from Minnich Architecture and Construction at its Feb. 13 meeting. Construction began Feb. 18 and is expected to be completed near the end of March.
The project is being funded by $20,000 encumbered from the Portland City Council’s 2003 budget, Blackford said Monday. The funds were left over from $50,000 set aside for the building in last year’s budget, she added.
“We were fortunate enough to encumber the money from 2003,” Hosier said. “There was a real need to upgrade the first floor of the city hall.”
The additional $2,014 is coming from the council’s 2004 budget.
“Since the downtown city building $4.5 million project fell through, we felt that it was time to do some work to our offices here,” Blackford said Monday of a project that called for combining the city offices and fire and police departments into one new building. There was no specific location chosen for that project, which fizzled in early 2002, Blackford said.
The carpeting now being replaced in city hall is more than eight years old, she said, and the brown paneling has covered the walls on the first floor for approximately 40 years. The paneling in the three offices will be replaced with drywall, which will be painted.
After the renovations are complete, an open house will be held at city hall, located at 321 N. Meridian St.
Hosier and Blackford also mentioned future plans to replace the awning and the double doors at the front of the building and to remove the glass enclosure near the front doors.
Hosier said that he would like to see those projects “addressed when the weather changes.”
In early 2002, renovations were completed to the front stairway, water and sewer department office and areas on the second floor at city hall.
Two 14-foot by 21-foot rooms, located on the second floor, were constructed as an office for Portland police chief investigator Todd Wickey — which includes a small evidence room for city police — and a conference room.
The water and sewer department office on the first floor was expanded into the front lobby area, which added a 12-by-15 foot area to that office. The stairway leading to the second floor also was remodeled.
Six windows also were replaced at the front of the building.[[In-content Ad]]
New carpeting and a fresh coat paint are planned for the building’s main hallway and the offices of Portland Mayor Bruce Hosier, administrative assistant Stephanie Arnold and city clerk-treasurer Barbara Blackford. Blackford’s office also will be enlarged to 14 feet by 12 feet from its current size of 11 feet by nine feet.
“(The renovations will) enhance what we think city government should represent,” Hosier said Monday in his office which has been stripped to the studs. “It is important that the city hall represents professionalism.”
The Portland Board of Works accepted the $22,014 project bid from Minnich Architecture and Construction at its Feb. 13 meeting. Construction began Feb. 18 and is expected to be completed near the end of March.
The project is being funded by $20,000 encumbered from the Portland City Council’s 2003 budget, Blackford said Monday. The funds were left over from $50,000 set aside for the building in last year’s budget, she added.
“We were fortunate enough to encumber the money from 2003,” Hosier said. “There was a real need to upgrade the first floor of the city hall.”
The additional $2,014 is coming from the council’s 2004 budget.
“Since the downtown city building $4.5 million project fell through, we felt that it was time to do some work to our offices here,” Blackford said Monday of a project that called for combining the city offices and fire and police departments into one new building. There was no specific location chosen for that project, which fizzled in early 2002, Blackford said.
The carpeting now being replaced in city hall is more than eight years old, she said, and the brown paneling has covered the walls on the first floor for approximately 40 years. The paneling in the three offices will be replaced with drywall, which will be painted.
After the renovations are complete, an open house will be held at city hall, located at 321 N. Meridian St.
Hosier and Blackford also mentioned future plans to replace the awning and the double doors at the front of the building and to remove the glass enclosure near the front doors.
Hosier said that he would like to see those projects “addressed when the weather changes.”
In early 2002, renovations were completed to the front stairway, water and sewer department office and areas on the second floor at city hall.
Two 14-foot by 21-foot rooms, located on the second floor, were constructed as an office for Portland police chief investigator Todd Wickey — which includes a small evidence room for city police — and a conference room.
The water and sewer department office on the first floor was expanded into the front lobby area, which added a 12-by-15 foot area to that office. The stairway leading to the second floor also was remodeled.
Six windows also were replaced at the front of the building.[[In-content Ad]]
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