Frisco's plan for its own animal shelter moves from choosing a size to drawing the building. The City Council's Nov. 3 consent agenda, posted Wednesday, includes a $1,692,840 agreement with the architecture firm PGAL to design the Frisco Animal Facility.
Council members picked a shelter size at an Oct. 6 work session, choosing an 18,000-square-foot design over a smaller city-only plan and a regional one, The Dallas Morning News reported at the time. The design contract is the first piece of that plan to come back for a vote.
Where it would go and what it would hold
A memo from Daniel Ford, the city's director of administrative services, places the facility on a roughly 34-acre site at the southwest corner of PGA Parkway and Gateway Drive. The building is described as a one-story structure of about 18,000 square feet holding a veterinary clinic, space to take in and house animals, adoption rooms and support areas.
Plans also call for a 1,200-square-foot dog pavilion, outdoor exercise yards and service areas.
PGAL would lead the work, with the firm Animal Arts as a subconsultant handling program development and the parts of the building animals use directly. Design is expected to take about eight months.
The money
The memo breaks the request into three parts:
- $1,548,000 for PGAL's fee, covering the remaining design phases, construction and permit drawings, bid support and oversight during construction
- Up to $21,000 for reimbursable expenses
- An 8% design contingency of $123,840 for changes or added services
Staff and the designers will work to a construction budget of $20 million, including the contractor's contingency, according to the memo. PGAL's scope document, dated Oct. 20, lists an estimated construction budget of $19.5 million and notes that market conditions could force changes to scope, quality or budget during design.
