BY JENNIFFER WARDELL

Clipper Staff Writer

CENTERVILLE — The South Davis Cultural Arts Center will have a few less dollars it needs to worry about.

The Centerville City Council recently decided that some of the fees that would face the arts center as part of the building process would be paid by the Centerville Redevopment Agency (RDA), as well as certain professional service costs.

The council also decided to completely waive the fees for the site plans and conditional use permit, and is investigating options to get other fees reduced or waived.

The fees for the site plans and conditional use permit total $800, all of which were waived by the council. The RDA will end up paying for whatever professional services are incurred as part of that process.

The RDA will also pay for inspection fees, which will be determined by the actual costs of the process instead of by a percentage of an improvement bond.

The city council doesn’t have final say on the public safety impact fee, which hasn’t been determined yet but would fall somewhere between $119.62 and $445.25 per 1,000 square feet.

Centerville Mayor Ronald Russell, however, said during the meeting that he would take the issue to the Fire District Board and see if they would be willing to waive the fee due to the benefits that the art center would provide the entire district.

The only set of fees that the council delayed a decision on are the building impact fees, which are likely to be the most expensive of all the arts center fees.

The council feels that more information is needed on the specific services that will be required, including plan reviews, though only part of those services will be handled by outside professionals. The rest will be done by members of the city staff.

Current designs for the theater include a main theater meant to seat nearly 500 people, and a smaller, black-box style theater that would seat just more than 200 people. Though Centerville City’s Rodgers Memorial Theatre would likely be the major occupant for the main stage, the black box theater would be open to community and even high school groups from all across the county.

Right now, crews are working on compressing the arts center site in order to eliminate some of the area’s natural groundwater, and Mayor Russell hopes to start official construction on the project by next spring.

jwardell@davisclipper.com