At its March 9 meeting, Humble City Council approved a roughly $5.76 million contract with Purcell Construction to build the new facility.
The backstory: Last January, council members approved the selection of Brown Reynolds Watford Architects Inc. to provide architectural and engineering design services for the city's new senior activity center.
During their Feb. 23 meeting, council members approved a roughly $888,000 amendment to the city's fiscal year 2022-23 budget that will largely cover additional costs associated with the city’s new senior activity center.
City Manager Jason Stuebe said the budget amendment was needed after the city received initial bids on the project.
Quote of note: “We’re excited to get the project up and running," Stuebe said. "In fact, we have our construction kickoff meeting scheduled for March 22. Hopefully we will have ground breaking sometime in early April.”
The details: Stuebe noted several design elements that will be included in the new 10,000-square-foot senior activity center, including:
- a game room
- a library
- a full kitchen
- classrooms
- a multipurpose room
