Making Progress!
At our annual congregational meeting on December 8, the Building Committee (chaired by Steve O’Dowd, who represented the team) gave a progress report on the building expansion. We will provide audio of the meeting and the full presentation in a separate post soon, but we wanted to go ahead and provide the building update separately.
Financials
Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far to the building campaign. At present, we are tracking ahead of our original goal thanks to your generous giving! The latest capital campaign giving report is available here.
As we prepare to launch the construction phase, we need you to continue fulfilling your pledges! And if you are interested in making a pledge and have not had a chance to do so, please don’t contact the church office.
Also, our church treasurer recently set up a brokerage account for ROC with our bank, so we are now able to receive stock donations.
Contact our treasurer to discuss
Progress and Timeline
The Building Committee has been working diligently over the past several months on several aspects of the project:
- Finalizing the contract with the builder
- Making final changes to the plan
- Coordinating the required steps with the city of Lake Mary
The planned expansion has grown in size to accommodate larger meeting spaces, covered areas, and two family/handicap-accessible bathrooms. We believe these changes to the original plan will make the building expansion a lot more useful for the long haul. Costs will increase a relatively small amount in light of the added square footage.
Permits are in the process of being secured, and the current hope is to break ground in late January or early February 2020. The builder expects the project to take around 8 months to complete.
Photos
Here is the latest set of drawings and renderings. A few tweaks remain to be made, but these are close to final.
Thanks!
Special thanks to our Building Committee for all their hard work. The team includes the following:
- Steve O’Dowd (chairman)
- David Camera
- Jennifer Duncan
- Kim Bougoulias
- Chip Gregeory
- Frank Liljeros
And thanks to you for your ongoing support of this vision!
