PORT TOWNSEND — Worried about rising cost estimates for a City Hall annex, City Council members met Wednesday to figure out whether a $3.7 million project to house city administrative office makes fiscal sense.

The answer they got from City Finance Director Michael Legarsky was a qualified “yes.”

Legarsky told the council’s Finance Committee that building a 10,800-square-foot annex next to City Hall, 540 Water St., would be cheaper than buying and renovating the historical Waterman & Katz building, where the city now leases administrative office space.

Building a larger 14,000-square-foot annex would incorporate more public space, but cost slightly more money than staying in Waterman & Katz.

All three committee members indicated support for the annex project, though decisions or recommendations have not yet been made.

———————

The rest of this story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition. Click on SUBSCRIBE to get the PDN delivered to your home or office.