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Communitybuilding repairs set By CAROLYN CONARROE consultants' report states "it grades which had been Parks Department offices. to Louisville's Community is recommended that the crowded out of the nearby the area near Centennial Building at 801 Grant Ave- entire floor of the Communi- school building. For several Shopping Mall. The building nue will soon undergo struc- ty Building be adequately decades Louisville's children at 801 Grant Avenue ill rural repairs in the first step supported by installation of went off to school for the first then he available. comfort- in restoring the building as a new concrete walls in the time in the "red brick able and centrally located for local landmark. basement area and by the schoolhouse.' senior citizen activities. Parks Director Dave Stahl installation of new steel Stahl proposed that the Stahl feels it would he expects bids for the repair beams and pipe supports in Community Building will appropriate that Louisville contracts will be opened on the crawl spaces.' eventually become a Senior residents could enjoy an April 24. The repairs will The Parks Department Citizens' social center. He afternoon social or card game require at least a month but budget for 1980 will include a suggests that the city will in the same room where they the structural repairs should budget item to continue the have a new recreation center, began the study of the three be completed by mid-June. restoration project. The ex- which`' -+ :he R's. The Parks Department terior brick walls will be , , budget for 1979 included repaired, either through S18.000 for the repairs and cleaning out loose mortar Cost of completing an and re-pointing the bricks, as engineering study to deter- the Rocky Mountain Consult- mine the extent of required ants report suggests, or by re-construction. some process of rebricking Representatives from the structure, as one council- Rocky Mountain Consultants man has proposed. City examined the foundation, council will make the final interior and exterior walls decisions. and the roof structure. The Once the structural and brick-work repairs have been completed then the final teps in the restoration ,rocess will be undertaken. 'hese include replacing the rindows in the building and e-constructing a cupola vhich originally was in place, in the roof at the entrance to he building. A fund was established in 1977 with monies remaining :ollowing the campaign to erect the Miners Memorial Statue. A $700 savings account was established for the Parks Department and specified to be used for replacing the cupola. The account has a balance of$800 and will be released to the Parks Department as the cupola restoration project begins. The Community Building was constructed in about 1905 to house the primary +