Library Building Task Force

Draft Minutes

10 December 2002

Members present:

Dean Baker, Beth McKinnon, Gary Warkentin, Jim Reynolds, Felix Rimberg, Jack Townes, Jane Troeh, and Pam Webber.

Guests: Randy Ealy, Dave Piper, Gloria Polzin, Steve Niichel,

Jim called the meeting to order at 12:00 at Cazadero Inn.

Gary/Jack moved/seconded that the minutes of the November 25^th meeting be approved as read. It was approved unanimously.

The principal item of business was the discussion of the three interviews of architectural firms. Jim thanked Dave for all his time and effort in putting the RFQ together, organizing the workshops and moderating the discussions. Gary said he did not need the architects’ evaluations for a couple of days, if people needed some extra time to fill them in. Gloria said that the choice seemed to be between a firm with a gifted vision, another firm with great communication capabilities, and a third firm that could keep the bottom line. A straw poll of the firms yielded one vote for Turi, three votes for BCJ, four votes for SRG, and three uncommitted votes which would either go to either SRG or BCJ. Since it was so close and there were still a few unanswered questions, it was decided to try to clarify some of those issues by e-mail between the task force’s structural committee and the architects. If that wasn’t successful, we could ask for another meeting between the LBTF and the one architect in those two firms that we would be working with the most.

Dean Baker (Finance Committee) distributed newly revised square footage and cost information about the prospective sites. Jim asked if we could recommend a site to the City Council yet? He would like to write a report to the council on the 6 month’s work that the LBTF has accomplished. Jane/Jack moved/seconded that the LBTF send the council a recommendation that named the Thriftway site as our first choice. The motion passed 5-2. Pam/Jack moved/seconded that we name the site to the east of the fire station as the second choice site. It was passed 5-0 with 1 abstention and 1 absence.

Jim called a recess over the holidays with a future meeting in January. The meeting was adjourned with no new meeting scheduled.