Sewer Offices To Have Public Meeting Rooms

The Liberty Lake Sewer District plans to build a new headquarters next year, and share it with the community.

The 5,864-square-foot building will be located at the northeast corner of Country Vista and Mission Avenue, behind the Albertson’s store in the Liberty Lake Town Center. It should be completed by fall, sewer district manager Lee Mellish said.

It will include at least two community meeting rooms, which will probably be offered to the public at no cost. Each will hold at least 50 people, Mellish said.

Currently, he said, community groups have few places to hold meetings in Liberty Lake.

The sewer district will use existing funds to build the $650,000 building, Mellish said. Bernardo-Wills Architects PC of Spokane is almost finished with plans for the one-story building. The public bid process will begin in January, he said.

The new headquarters will provide roughly five times as much office space as the current building. The district’s seven employees now work out of the treatment plant near the Liberty Lake interchange.

“We have people in closets. There’s no storage,” Mellish said.

The building will be located on 2.5 acres of land purchased by the district in August. It’s located across the street from the Liberty Lake Park and Ride.

The district serves about 1,200 water and 1,400 sewer customers.

, DataTimes