Community Center Consultants Meeting With Board August 22

At the start of their needs assessment and feasibility study on a future multipurpose community recreation center in Montgomery Township,  Ballard*King & Associates Recreation Facility Planning and Kimmel-Bogrette Architecture + Site held in July.

Now, on August 22 at 5 p.m., the two firms will meet with supervisors in a public meeting to review the information they have gathered from that session.

"The process started in July. We had a community meeting and a number of workshop meetings with the consultants. The meeting here was well attended, full house, and a lot of good comments were passed forward to the consultants," said township Manager Larry Gregan at Monday night's board of supervisors meeting.

Gregan said the two firms would be coming back to meet with the township parks and recreation board, Montgomery County Planning Commission members who are working on the township's parks and recreation plan and Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library Director Kathleen Arnold-Yerger.

"(At the workshop meeting) they will give an update with information they received so far and work through some issues that are necessary to discuss: financial issues and planning issues that they identified as part of their initial information gathering," Gregan said.

After the August 22 session, the two firms will return in September to discuss preliminary findings and preliminary plan proposals for the building.

"The final report is expected to be completed at the end of October," Gregan said. "We would have a regular board meeting where they would present the report of all the findings and recommendations for the board's consideration."

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