Too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter and not sustainable. Just a selection from the problems with the current town hall in Vries. The Tynaarlo city council will soon choose one of the three options on the table to renovate the town hall.
Three variants have been devised: a basic variant, a variant in which workplaces are redesigned and the third preferred variant. The costs vary in the base between 4.9 and 8.1 million euros.
The preference of the B and W College is for the third and also the most expensive variant. Everything comes together: sustainability and solving, among other things, the temperature problems (variant 1), reclassification and redesign of the workplaces (variant 2) and one step extra.
Because in addition to only a workplace for civil servants, with variant three the town hall can also become a ‘multifunctional meeting center’. Then external parties can also use different spaces.
“Mayor, dare to dream, asked councilor Els Kardol (D66) at the end of 2022. That is what we do with the third variant,” said Mayor Marcel Thijsen in a plea to the council to choose this.
That the current state of the building is not good is once again emphasized by the project leader in the council meeting. “We have been receiving complaints from building users for years. It is too hot, too cold and the air quality is not good. This must be improved, the urgency is absolutely there.”
According to Mayor Marcel Thijsen, this is because it was chosen at the time to build the building within budget. “That was consciously chosen, but was at the expense of what we call present healthy offices.”
Council members hardly doubt the need for variants one and two. There is critical sound for phase three. “As a municipality, we now have quite a lot of real estate. We have to be careful not to compete with ourselves,” says D66 party leader Herman van Os.
Gezinus Pieters of Tynaarlo Liberaal agrees. “We can make so many cozy corners, but are there so many pleasant people to sit in it?”
Yet Mayor Thijsen continues to prefer option three. “The moment you always wait for the certainty of tomorrow, you know one thing for sure: that you always stay in the building of yesterday.”
In addition, the mayor says that money is not being asked yet. “It is about what we will let the experts look at in the design phase. If it doesn’t work afterwards, we can always draw other conclusions.”
It was doubted whether it should be printed on the pause button, but that was not continued. On September 16, the council will continue to talk about which variant can be designed. Only after the design phase does it become clear how much money has to be deducted for the renovation.