I Love My Corpus Christi: City's to-do list: WATT about the Leaky Roof at City Hall?

Sunday, August 13, 2006

City's to-do list: WATT about the Leaky Roof at City Hall?

City's to-do list

August 13, 2006

Asian Cultures Museum and Educational Center

1800 N. Mesquite St.

One of five Asian museums

in the country, the Asian museum provides classes, Asian arts and crafts and traveling exhibits.

Year built: 1945

Bought by the city in 1999 and renovated in 2001

Square footage: 8,366

Estimated maintenance costs through 2015: $149,438

Major costs:

$53,250 for a new roof

$28,200 for new air handler units

$12,672 to sand and paint concrete floors

Heritage Park

(excluding the Asian Museum)

1581 N. Chaparral St.

Park includes the Corpus Christi Visitors Center, Gugenheim House and Seaman's Center, among other buildings.

Years built: 1851-1987

Estimated maintenance costs through 2015: $1,387,046 Major costs:

$230,222 for the Buddy Lawrence House

$115,635 for the Sid Richardson Building

$95,935 for the Sidbury

House

Oso Wastewater Plant

501 Nile Drive

Plant includes 32 buildings, including lift stations, pump houses, storage tanks and screening buildings.

Years built: 1950-1992

Estimated maintenance costs through 2015: $1,506,648 Major costs:

$233,981 for the plant

$133,658 for offices/labs

Corpus Christi Police Department Headquarters

321 John Sartain St.

Former Central Power and Light Co. building

Acquired by the city in 1988 for $1.4 million; occupied by the police department since 1991.

Estimated major costs:

$500,000 for a new air conditioning system

$500,000 for elevator replacements

City Vehicle Fleet

Includes all vehicles, from pickup trucks to tractors, beach cleaners and street equipment.

Number of vehicles: 2,000

Average life: 93 months

Expected life: 86 months

Percent past useful life: 46

Cost to replace all vehicles past their useful life: $27 million

Source: City of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi Police Department

No comments:

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2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. 3 At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered, 4 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

5 The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, 6 and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's [1] treasure.

7 Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities [2] are despised; there is no regard for man. 9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

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23 Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey. 24 And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.