Delta Municipal Hall is getting a makeover.
Council last week received a staff update report on ongoing upgrades and renovations to the facility. The project has a total cost of $2 million.
A report notes that a number of areas of the facility are in need of critical maintenance and updating to ensure continued provision of services to the community.
Over the coming months, staff will progress with work on the council chambers, an addition to the city hall front entrance/vestibule, as well as the establishment of an information kiosk and office renovations to enhance space efficiencies.
When it comes to the council chambers, “critical maintenance” is required to address the “deteriorated condition” of seating, glass work, flooring and desktops, the report notes, adding that the changes will bring a “modestly improved ambience” for council meetings and enhance the functionality for meeting participants and staff.
As far as operational requirements of city hall, the report notes that a number of office renovations are being completed in the facility as well as the adjacent annex building, which was formerly leased to Fraser Health.
Those changes include the creation of additional offices for the Parks Recreation and Culture Department, enhancements to the annex to accommodate Human Resources and Bylaw Services as well as an improved public interface and meeting space and renovations to the Communications and Capital Project team areas in the northwest corner.
The city last year issued a request for proposals for a qualified consultant experienced in space planning to undertake an assessment of workspace needs for the employee complement that currently works out of the Municipal Hall building in the Ladner Civic Precinct.
According to the request for proposals, the building has undergone numerous workspace reconfigurations since it was originally constructed in the early 1990s. At present, the building houses 252 full-time employees working for 11 separate departments, with little unoccupied space available for possible new employees.
