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Board of Trustees Building. Expansion. Meeting
March4, 1999
Trustees present were M. Thomas, S. Singleton, M. Roberts, M. Lawrence, and L. Brewer, L.
Gottsponer. M. Goff was absent. Staff members present were L. Schaper. Also present was
Jeff Scherer, consulting architect.
The meeting was called to order on 3/4/99 at 4:35 p.m. No minutes of the previous meeting
were available.
Other business was covered before the building expansion discussion began.
1. L. Schaper asked the Board to approve up to $30,000 for furniture and technology
infrastructure to ready the computer lab and the main library for the Gates Library
Foundation computer lab and public access workstations. The exact fund to be used
will be decided at a later meeting. L. Gottsponer moved to approve this request, M.
Lawrence seconded it. All voted aye.
2. The next regular Board meeting will remain as Monday, March 15 at 4 p.m.
Building expansion discussion:
1. Mr. Scherer presented the "score" sheets for the various options. He said the purpose of
these sheets was not to choose a site based on a score, but rather the purpose is to serve as
a platform for discussion and resolution, to find out what people know and don't know and to
act as a barometric pressure test. He reminded the Board that the various options or
schemes are not definitive choices, but evoMng"schemes. His job is to guide the Board
through the pitfalls and to teach the Board to think critically about the options.
2. L. Gottsponer asked Jeff which site has the most design potential. J. Scherer said the site
north of City Hospital. He added that the existing site without the building also has a lot of
design potential. Adding to the original bulding presents design issues, e.g. roof lines
between the two buildings.
3. J. Scherer said that people like the existing building because (1) it has been here for one
generation and (2) the landscape and how the building is sited is pleasing—ft is a big building
with a small scale. He said that if the trees were removed, say by a storm, the building
might be perceived differently. In this type of structure, a building of low cost was elevated
to a higher standard.
4. J. Scherer said that quality is defined by where you have been. Each one of us has our own
benchmark for quality. At the April meetings he will have dollar cost values.
5. S. Singleton asked to what extent the Segraves design effects the design of the addition. J.
Scherer said the contingency cost of remodeling Is high. All addition schemes are lower in
scale. It is, he said, very likely that the design for the existing site would be different than
that of the new site.
6. Additional questions were raised about (1) which people like better, the site or the
architecture of the existing building; (2) the possibility of keeping the original building and
radically altering it. -
7. Also mentioned was the fact that if we stay on the existing site and acquire the three houses
on Conner, we would have almost an acre more than the hospital site.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 p.m. •
