KELOWNA — The Rutland Park Society is looking for public input into how it should move forward with improvements to Rutland Centennial Hall.
The upgrades are estimated to cost more than $1-million.
The society says in 2014, it negotiated with the City of Kelowna to transfer the park land and a road right away to the city.
In exchange, the society would receive money to improve the hall. However, the city conducted an assessment of the hall only to find that many of the building systems should be considered ‘critically deficient’ and in need of immediate replacement.
The options the society is considering and asking for public input on are to renovate the hall with the existing funding, replace the hall with a new structure and maintain existing uses, replace the hall with some new uses and compliment with commercial space that could be used to support ongoing operations.
“Each of these alternatives offers significant opportunities and challenges. Public input is critical to ensure we are addressing the possibilities to truly benefit the Rutland community,” the society said in a news release.
The society says an open house will be held at the hall in early May and it plans to have the final strategy for the hall formalized by the end of the year.