Major Upgrades Proposed for Villa Chanticleer

Healdsburg Parks and Recreation Commission will look at a wide-ranging series of proposals tonight to revamp the city's aging social hall,

On the agenda for tonight's meeting, at 6 p.m. at is a series of six reports from a special Villa Chanticleer subcommittee.

City leaders have long discussed ways to shore up the aging gathering place and make it into a profitable venture. In recent years, revenue has fallen off and the list of needed maintenance work has grown.

The mission of the subcommittee, composed of local businesspeople as well as City Council members and Parks and Recreation commissioners, was to define what it would take to restore the Villa Chanticleer into the showplace and go-to gathering spot it once was and could be again.

Suggestions range from adding a wine tasting room to hiring new staff to making thousands of dollars in repairs.

To see copies of the six reports, click on the PDFs attached to this story.