HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Packet 01-03-1995 SpecialPLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1995
6:00 P.M.
Council Conference Room
I. Review plans for City Council Chambers Renovation
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DATE: December 29, 1994
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Kathy Lueckert, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: City Council Chambers Renovation Study Sessio --January 3
Mayor Tierney has called a special meeting at 6 PM on January 3 to consider the
general conceptual plans for the Council Chamber renovation project. Jeremy Bork,
from Trossen/Wright Architects, will attend and will give you an overview of the
options. Please bring with you the memo and plans I sent to you in the December 22
packet.
The only guidance we seek from you Tuesday night is whether or not you are
interested in pursuing the conceptual plan involving a new entrance. If you are
interested, then some of the construction (on the link between City Center and the
Public Safety building) will be postponed while more detailed plans for the new
entrance are developed. If you are not interested in that particular plan, we will
proceed with the other options and present a complete package (including plans for the
audio visual system) to you in February.
Please call me with any questions.
DATE: December 22, 1994
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Kathy Lueckert, Assistant City Manager /
SUBJECT: City Council Chambers Renovation Project
For the past several weeks staff has been meeting with the architect and audio visual
consultant on the Council Chambers renovation project. Because of the current stage of
construction, staff and the architect would like some feedback from you on one of the
conceptual plans we've developed.
We have come up with three for modifications to the room. Two of the concepts make
minimal modifications to the room, but do redesign the dais. The third option creates a
new entrance to the Chambers and to City Center. It also makes City Center and the
Public Safety building look like one complex.
This conceptual plan is attached to this memo, along with a computer rendering of what
the new entrance might look like. Some of the advantages of this concept are:
creates more seating and provides more flexible space in the Council Chambers
creates a large lobby area outside of the Chambers
visually links the two buildings together, but makes the City's main entrance more
evident to visitors.
Preliminary cost estimates for this concept were about $1.1 million, excluding the
audio visual upgrades. By eliminating the rest rooms and conference room shown on
the plan, and by re -thinking the building materials used, the architect feels that further
cost reductions are possible. The audio visual upgrades, for any of the three concepts,
are estimated at $300,000.
If the Council is interested in this "new entrance" option, there are construction
advantages to knowing that as quickly as possible. Construction on the link to the
Public Safety building will start in the next few weeks. A different entrance to City
Center and the Chambers will have an impact on that phase of the construction. In
essence, if we are seriously interested in this concept, we need to adjust construction
plans almost immediately to save costs.
Our plan is to bring all three options to you for consideration at a study session in
February, with complete costs and options. However, the construction schedule
dictates that we ascertain your interest in pursuing the new entrance concept a little
sooner.
Please take a look at the plan --if several of you are interested in hearing more about it,
probably for a short time before the January 3 meeting, please let me know by
Wednesday, December 28. We will then have Mayor Tierney call a special meeting
on January 3 so that the architect can present the option to you. If I do not hear from
you, I will assume that you prefer us to focus on the other two options, which do not
require additional construction.
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