Roof leaks at Destin Community Center under scrutiny

 Destin has hired the Tetra Tech engineering firm to figure out what’s wrong with the roofs at the Community Center and the Destin Library.
Roof leaks at the center have been a recurring problem — one the city has tried to fix permanently in the past.
“We’re trying to get a consultant to study it and come up with an answer,” City Engineer Chuck Meister told The Log. “The same situation has occurred at the library: We’re having some leaks along the high parapet walls. It may be related to the movement of the walls when we have some heavy windstorms, but we don’t know that.”
Meister said it would take a month, possibly two, before Tetra Tech begins work.
Destin’s original “Community House” was built in 1947 on land donated by Tyler Calhoun. It went on to serve for many years as the place for the library, town meetings, voting (precinct 20), church services, arts classes, a tourist bureau and the site of Destin City Council meetings from 1985 to 1987. Today it functions as the office of the Destin Fishing Rodeo.
In 1990, the city contracted to build the current Community Center, which was completed in 1991. The library was built in 2003.