The Pullman City Council passed a resolution at its meeting Tuesday that could allocate up to $10.5 million to go mostly toward a new city hall.

The proposal is a 20-year bond which would add $88 annually in property taxes to a $200,000 home in the city, City Attorney Laura McAloon said. $9 million of the proposed amount would pay for the acquisition and remodeling of the Encounter Ministries church campus located at 190 SE Crestview St. on Pioneer Hill.

The Encounter Ministries church board had previously only offered to sell the gymnasium building to the city as recently as last year, McAloon said. The offer now includes the entirety of the 6-acre church campus.

The old city hall would still be used by the police department, according to a memo from City Supervisor Adam Lincoln. The rest of the $10.5 million bond, about $1.5 million, would be used for the acquisition of land for a senior center, third fire station and new Lawson Gardens Pavilion and Event Center.

City Planning Director Pete Dickinson said the bond proposal will be introduced to the voters on the Nov. 7 ballots.

The project will only move forward if two conditions are met, McAloon said. First, 40 percent of the voters who voted in the past year’s November elections would need to turnout to this election. Second, 60 percent of the voters in this year’s election would have to vote for passing the bond.

“Nothing’s going to happen until the voters decide in November,” Dickinson said, “and then planning work would happen shortly thereafter.”

In the memo, Lincoln provided an estimated breakdown of how the $10.5 million would be spent. $3.5 million would be allocated for buying the Encounter Ministries property, and $5.5 million for the remodeling project.

The church itself would be remodeled to house city administrative offices and would become the new city hall, while the attached gymnasium would house the Parks and Recreation department, Dickinson said.

If the city attempted to build a new city hall on a comparable land plot, Lincoln estimated it would cost the anywhere from $25 to $50 million, according to the memo.

“I think this is a great opportunity for the city in purchasing this building,” Councilman Al Sorensen said.

Sorensen said the council as a whole should do more to push projects, which benefit the city so bonds like this will have little resistance because of higher voter confidence in the council.