All right, I'm gonna go ahead and call us to order for our February, no March, April, where are we?

April 6th, pre-council 2026.

We've got one item under open, and then we have a few items under close.

So our first one is our McKinney Building Feasibility Study.

So I'm gonna kick this over to Amy Schneider.

Sure.

So thank you.

Today we're presenting the McKinney feasibility study for your review.

Um the study was previously shared with the mayor's task force on February 27th, and it represents an important early step in what's going to be a much longer process.

Um I want to emphasize this is a feasibility study, not the final design.

Um it's the beginning of an undertaking that will likely evolve with different configurations, priorities, and faces shaped by space limitations and funding.

Um, as a reminder, the mayor's task force was appointed in January of 24 and worked throughout that year, finalizing a comprehensive report in October and presenting that to the council in December of 24.

Once that work was done, the task force report was provided to SOA architecture, and that served as the foundation for the study that you'll see today.

The task force provided thoughtful and detailed feedback when the feasibility study was presented to them in February, including ideas such as increasing flexibility in the multi-purpose room through features like retractable doors, exploring opportunities to expand or enhance that space, ensuring adequate soundproofing for daytime events, and maintaining the historic integrity of the building's exterior.

They also raised important operational considerations, including space needs for the Office of Cultural Affairs and opportunities for improved wayfinding and signage.

As you'll see, the study identifies existing building deficiencies that will need to be addressed as part of any renovation.

These realities combined with the building's relatively small footprint of approximately 7800 square feet, require careful balancing of priorities.

Overall, we believe SOA architecture has done a strong job of reflecting the intent of the task force vision while working within those constraints.

So with that, I'll let Jen Hedrick, president of SOA Architecture, walk you through the feasibility study.

Awesome.

Thank you, Amy.

Thanks, Amy.

Can you hear me okay?

Okay.

As long as you have the microphone near you because you speak very softly.

I'll do better, Betsy.

All right.

Yeah, so I'm gonna take you through a presentation here that basically summarizes the steps that we went through.

If you have any questions or anything is not clear during that time, just don't hesitate to stop me.

So as Amy indicated, basically we analyze the building for compliance first, and then we also looked at a building program.

So identifying the space needs of the building based on that mayor's task force study.

We developed a design and we came up with realistic budget for implementing those.

As far as the multi-purpose program goes, uh we looked very specifically at social gatherings, performance space, education space, and rotating exhibit space, but that is not to suggest that those are the limiting factors.

The the goal with the project or the goal with the programmatic uses was that it would be as flexible as possible for even things not imagined today.

And Amy did a good job of of clarifying where we are in the process, but this is how a typical project goes through from pre-design at the beginning all the way through post-occupancy, and you can see where we're at here.

So we don't have details figured out.

We have big picture ideas and vision incorporated, but as far as getting into the weeds, we would get into the weeds in this portion of the project, and we are not there yet.

So just keeping that in mind, and I appreciate that you mentioned that off the bat.

So the very first thing we looked out really was looking at the building, regardless of function, we looked at it more for compliance issues, and we found that there were various deficiencies within the building.

On the left hand, left hand side there, you can see the first floor plan, and on the right hand side the second floor plan.

For context, this is Broadway Street right here.

This is Second Baptist Church right here.

This is that space in the back, and there's that garage in the back.

This is Plaza Tire on the right side.

So as far as deficiencies go, the very first deficiency that we identified was ADA accessibility.

There is no way inside the building right now from an AD accessibility standpoint.

Um as far as getting from the first floor to the second floor, right now there is no elevator.

So we're proposing the addition of an elevator, and then restrooms, marginally compliant, um, although the restrooms have a lot of issues associated with plumbing issues, uh freezing pipes, that sort of thing.

And then restrooms, marginally compliant, although the restrooms have a lot of issues associated with plumbing issues, freezing pipes, that sort of thing.

So really we've addressed, we've looked at ADA accessibility and then safe exiting was another issue that we found with the building.

So although it had two staircases, neither of them were enclosed with fire ratings, neither of them were compliant as far as the size shape or configuration of those.

So as we look at a new configuration in the building, we're suggesting new entrance with ADA accessibility ramp, new stairs to connect the upstairs and the downstairs.

Again, an elevator connecting the upstairs and the downstairs, adding a stair tower to the back, which would be that second way out of the building, and then you can see ADA accessible restrooms.

We'll get a little bit more into the floor plan, but just regardless of what goes in the building, these are compliance issues that would need to be addressed.

The other thing, oh I missed that on here, but we also uh identified structural integrity issues with regard to the building.

This is the southwest on the far left, there's the southwest corner of the building.

Might be hard to see, but right there.

Um that's a cast iron column, and it has split.

And upon splitting, then all of this has started to really move quite a substantially.

So we've had structural engineers assessing the building.