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The work is needed to protect the facility, said Taylor Morrison, Gallagher Centre General Manager, with the city at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

“The Access Communications Water Park at the Gallagher Centre uses a dehumidification system to either remove warm, humid air and replace it with fresh air, or mix the warm humid air with fresh air, depending on the outside temperature. Without this system the conditions inside the facility would become uncomfortable for users and, if left unchecked, would cause deterioration of the structure,” he explained.

Morrison noted, “$600,000 was approved as part of the City’s capital budget for this project and the City was successful in receiving a grant through the Canada Community Revitalization Fund for the amount of $400,000 in addition to the approved budget amount.”

The project involves numerous aspects including structural design, system controls and related electrical design as well as the dehumidification design, supply and installation.

The tender accepted Monday dealt only with the dehumidification supply and installation.

In May an invitation to tender was advertised and three tenders were provided.

The lowest tender was supplied by Ainsworth Inc. for $560,000 excluding applicable taxes, said Morrison.

Some pre-tender work had been completed, and has already been put through the project budget, including structural and dehumidification design totaling $22,465.

“This leaves $577,535.00 remaining in the project budget. However, the $400,000.00 Canada Community Revitalization Fund grant is provided to assist with project costs, leaving 977,535.00 available for the project,” said Morrison.

After taxes, all of the dehumidification supply and install bids would be over the remaining $577,535.00 available City funds.

“This is not surprising given that the preliminary design and cost estimating was provided prior to final design and prior to the recent hikes in inflation,” said Morrison.

Further, there are some other project costs that are not part of the scope of this tender, including approximately $25,000.00 in electrical and controls costs as well as the remaining consultant fees of $5,000.00, he explained.

When all costs, including taxes, controls and electrical, design and consultant fees were included the total anticipated cost of the project is $673,465.

After using the Canada Community Revitalization funding, there would be approximately $304,070 of City funding that could be returned to reserves and used on other projects, said Morrison.

The city dollars will be kept in the Gallagher Centre Reserve.

Council was unanimous in accepting the tender.