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3. Target Users <br />ldentifythe primary users of this infrastructure (e.g., tourists, event attendees, <br />outdoor enthusiasts) <br />The Ettensburg community and Kittitas County residents witt be the primary users of the <br />facitity during the week. One purpose for buitding the fietdhouse is to reptace the <br />Ettensburg Racquet & Recreation Center which burned in December 2022. Atthough the <br />fietdhouse and racquet center are two uniquety different facitities, the city and community <br />understand the demand for additionat indoor recreation space. The City of Ettensburg's <br />youth and adutt sports programs witt be housed in the fietdhouse;this incl.udes youth and <br />adutt basketbatt, soccer, and votteybal.t. Ctub sports teams from throughout Kittitas <br />County witt atso be abte to rent court time for practices, training, and games. Adutts witl. <br />have access to the space for drop-in programs tike open gym basketbalt and votteybatt, <br />picktebatt, and watking/ru nning. <br />Much of the weekend use, especiatty in the winter, woutd be geared toward renting out the <br />facitity for tournaments. Locat basketbat[ and votteybatt tournament organizers have <br />shared aspirations with city staff to host a minimum of 25 tournaments in Ettensburg <br />annuatty using the fietdhouse courts with a minimum of 60 teams per tournament. Each <br />basketbatt teams averages 8-10 kids/famities per team. lf hatf the teams (30) each <br />tournament travet over 2 hours to ptay, this equates to at teast 240 hotet rooms being <br />needed every tournament weekend. The ptanned fietdhouse facitity witl' enabte these team <br />sports aspirations to become a reatity. <br />lll. Budget and Funding: Ptease provide a project budget which inctudes totat cost and <br />breakdown of expense by phase and/or maior category. <br />The city pl,ans to enter into a publ,iclprivate partnership through Chapter 35.42 RCW, to <br />construct and tease back a fietdhouse facitity. Under this scenario, the city woutd: <br />. Pubtish a request for quatifications for the construction of the fietdhouse at Rotary <br />Park <br />r Setect the buitder and negotiate a ground lease and a buitding lease with terms for <br />the city to purchase the buitding in the future <br />. The buitder assumes att risks during construction and witl own the buitding <br />throughout the term of the tease <br />. The city woutd manage and operate the day-to-day operations of the buitding <br />Under this model., the city believes the total. cost to construct and furnish the buitding witt <br />be approximatety $t 5,000,000.00