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Lake Park City Council Awards Bid On City Hall Renovations

January 14, 2025 Steve Schwaller

(Lake Park)– A total renovation of the Lake Park City Hall will be getting underway in coming days. The city council Monday evening awarded a bid on the project. Mayor Matt Carstensen says there’s some good news on that front…

“Well it came below engineer’s estimates and that’s going to allow us to do a little bit of extra work on the outside that maybe we hadn’t planned on to begin with. But very happy with the whole process and as I said the bid came in under what the engineer thought.”

The low bid of $338,075 includes new offices for city staff, Lake Park Municipal Utilities and the police department, along with a new council chambers and replacement of the building’s facade. Carstensen says the building, which served the community many years as a grocery store, has some historical significance…

“We have some remnants from the building when we took over that we’re going to incorporate so that those aren’t lost in the whole process.”

Carstensen says city offices will be working out of a temporary location beginning this coming Monday while the construction is going on…

“We are going to relocate the city offices to the fire station and they are in the process of, I think they’re going to move servers on Friday, and so we’ll be in there next week. The scope of the project, it’s supposed to take, according to the bids we opened tonight it should be completed by May 5th, so that’s a fairly short timeline to gut a building an put it back together. We’re pretty happy about that.”

In other business, the council approved increasing the starting wage for police officers in Lake Park to $28.50 per hour in hopes of attracting candidates to fill a vacant position. The city’s police force currently consists of just the chief.