Ammon City Hall expanding and remodeling its building to better serve the community

AMMON — Ammon City Hall is undergoing a remodel and description to accommodate nan organization for nan adjacent 30 years. 

City Hall is located astatine 2135 South Ammon Road. Part of nan building has a obstruction astir it, pinch crews moving connected nan property.

“The creation is humble from Ammon Road. If you’re not paying attention, you whitethorn not moreover cognize there’s an description going on,” said City Administrator Micah Austin. 

The “old City Hall” is astir 5,000 quadrate feet, and nan description will astir double nan size of nan building overall.

The existent organization of Ammon is astir 20,000 people.

“We knew arsenic nan metropolis grew, that we’d request much space,” Mayor Sean Coletti said. “For galore years, nan metropolis assembly has saved money because we knew that nan aged metropolis building was going to beryllium inadequate astatine immoderate point.”

Coletti said nan metropolis has budgeted $3 cardinal for nan description and remodel and is paying for it utilizing savings that were group aside. 

“No further taxation costs to nan residents whatsoever,” Coletti said. 

An aged City Hall plaque. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

The aged City Hall was built successful 1995, and was rather small. Over nan years it became clear it was clip to expand.

“People were moving connected apical of each different and stepping complete workplaces and stepping done workplaces to get to different workplaces. It was time,” Austin said. 

There was ne'er an elevator to get to nan downstairs and location weren’t capable gathering spaces. Only 2 meetings could beryllium held astatine a time. 

“If we had to person 3 aliases 4 different meetings astatine nan aforesaid time, we couldn’t do it,” Coletti said.

Additionally, nan politician didn’t person an agency to clasp a gathering and would effort to find immoderate disposable space, for illustration nan break room.

Construction connected nan description began successful September. It will person further agency space, including an agency for nan mayor, an ADA-compliant elevator and further parking spaces. 

There were only 40 parking spaces before, and now location will beryllium 76. Due to nan constricted number of disposable spots, group would often parkland adjacent doorway astatine a religion and locomotion over. 

There will beryllium different measurement to entree nan metropolis building, which is done Brookfield Drive, alternatively of conscionable Ammon Road.  

“Then we besides person a greenish abstraction retired present that we will beautify and make judge that it’s a spot that nan nationalist tin beryllium proud of and utilize,” Coletti said. 

Some of nan greenish space. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

The aged portion of City Hall will still beryllium used. It is going done a remodel. The offices successful nan beforehand are being redone and truthful will nan downstairs. 

The metropolis assembly chambers will not spell done a remodel for a fewer reasons. 

“The costs would beryllium exorbitant to grow nan assembly chambers. And…the immense mostly of our meetings, nan group who are successful attendance tin easy fresh successful nan existent assembly chambers if we person to. We besides person zoom capability,” Coletti said. “Just didn’t make immoderate consciousness to build a monolithic caller assembly chambers pinch those options.” 

Austin and Coletti dream everything will beryllium vanished by nan extremity of July. However, it could beryllium afloat vanished by nan extremity of September. 

“I’m excited for really it will service nan nationalist successful nan future,” Coletti said.

Mayor Sean Coletti shows EastIdahoNews.com nan City Hall building. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

One of nan caller offices. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com