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The Portland City Council on Wednesday took action to expedite the work to secure temporary space for the 1,300 employees who will be displaced during a major project to renovate the city’s administrative hub.

The Portland Building, completed in 1983, requires major seismic and structural fixes. A 鈥減rogressive鈥� design-build-relocate plan was approved by the council to give the Office of Management and Finance flexibility needed to execute the project. On Wednesday, the council passed a resolution tying project leaders in OMF to a budget of $195 million and a completion date of the end of 2020.

HSW has been working with commercial real estate broker Jones Lang LaSalle to locate and negotiate leases for office space in the Central Business District. Wednesday’s resolution authorized JLL to negotiate multiple contracts with landlords so that it doesn’t have to return to council for each. The matter was passed as an emergency ordinance.

In other business on Wednesday:

• Portland Parks and Recreation received authorization to replace the disused wading pool and aging restrooms at Colonel Summers Park in the Buckman neighborhood. It will cost $576,242 to add a splash pad water feature and Portland Loo amenities. The money will come from the bureau’s 2017 budget. The project is partly paid for by System Development Charges. It was identified in the $68 million bond passed by Portland voters in 2014.

A contract with DAO Architecture for the design of Colonel Summers Park gates was updated to reflect about a $10,000 increase. The city will now spend about $36,000 for the designs of the pavilion gates at Colonel Summers Park.The decorative gates will aid with safety, according to Lauren McGuire, capital projects manager for the 2014 bond program.

The project was delayed earlier this year when the bid for fabrication and installation of the gates yielded no proposals. So DAO performed additional design work to ensure subsequent bids. The city approached metal fabricators in the area, and the new proposal received three bids.

The gates will be installed next spring, and the other park improvements will be in place by the middle of next year, McGuire said.

• Portland Parks and Recreation transferred ownership of a $1.2 million parcel of land in the Tabor neighborhood to the Housing Bureau for development of affordable housing. The Housing Bureau will contribute $1.2 million into the parks bureau’s Parks Memorial Fund.

The site at 511 S.E. 60th Ave. is the home of Mt. Tabor Annex, now occupied by Y’s Choice Child Development Center; it’s operated by the YMCA of Columbia-Willamette.

Housing Bureau Director Kurt Creager said the building, which is made of unreinforced masonry, will likely be torn down.

鈥淗opefully we can move quickly enough that it doesn’t have to be reinforced,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t does have kind of a neat facade, but the building itself can’t really be retained.鈥�

To that, Mayor Charlie Hales said, 鈥淵ou can’t save ’em all.鈥�

• The Water Bureau will pay $2.3 million for design, engineering and construction management of the Sandy River Engineered Log Jam Placement Project, which is intended to restore habitat for native fish. The project is recommended under the Habitat Conservation Plan for the Bull Run Watershed. The plan calls for improvements to the Bull Run River, where the city draws the majority of its drinking water.

A professional services contract was awarded to Wolf Water Systems.

Water rates are expected to increase to help pay for the project.

鈥淣ormally governments don’t try to actually create log jams, but in this case it makes sense,鈥� Hales said.

The contract requires a second reading.