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GOOD[CALL TO ORDER]
EVENING.I'D LIKE TO OFFICIALLY CALL THIS MEETING OF THE RICHARDSON CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER.
UM, WE'LL GO TO ITEM A VISITORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS.
WE ARE NOT IN RECEIPT OF ANY CARDS IN ADVANCE OF THE 5:00 PM DEADLINE, AND OUR CITY SECRETARY IS INDICATING WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS.
[B. PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH]
YOU.LET'S GO TO ITEM B, PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATION FOR THE NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH.
MR. MAGNER, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.
OUR DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, ALICIA GIMBLE IS GONNA MAKE HER WAY TO THE PODIUM.
I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE, UM, OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR, SCOTT GRON AND OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, ALEXIS SNYDER.
UM, WE ARE HAPPY AND ALWAYS PROUD TO, UH, CELEBRATE NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH.
AND SO ALICIA'S GONNA, UH, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, HOW WE'RE RAISING AWARENESS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN MAYOR, UH, AFTER ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU AND THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO MAKE, WE'D LIKE TO JUST DO A QUICK PHOTO OP SO WE COULD USE THAT IN OUR FURTHER PROMOTION.
UM, AS HE MENTIONED, I'VE GOT A FEW MEMBERS OF MY STAFF HERE, SO I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THEM AS WELL.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
UM, I ALSO HAVE IN THE AUDIENCE, UM, SCOTT GREESON FROM MY STAFF, WHO IS THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR, AND ALEXIS SNYDER, WHO'S OUR, UH, PREPAREDNESS AND RESILIENCE COORDINATOR AS WELL.
UM, SO MATT LAUNION COULDN'T JOIN US THIS EVENING, AND HE'S SORRY ABOUT THAT, BUT HE DID SEE YOU GUYS FOR RECORDS MANAGEMENT WHEN IT WAS THAT MONTH, AND WE WERE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS WELL.
SO, AS YOU KNOW, UM, WE APPRECIATE ANY TIME THAT WE GET DURING THESE MEETINGS.
SO, UM, FOR 2023, NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH IS THE REASON THAT I'M HERE.
UM, I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT AND HAVE ALL OF US THINK ABOUT THE PREPAREDNESS IN OUR HOUSEHOLDS, UM, IN OUR BUSINESSES, IN EVERY PART OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU TOUCH, FRIENDS, RELATIVES, NEIGHBORS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN ALL BECOME MORE PREPARED IN NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH.
SO THAT IS THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, UM, AND IT REALLY MEETS THE, THE MISSION OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO FOR THE PAST, PAST FEW YEARS, YOU, YOU'VE NOTICED THERE'S A, A LITTLE BIT MORE OF AN EMPHASIS ON PREPAREDNESS.
UM, IT HAS TOUCHED US ALL WITH C O V I D.
UM, WE'VE SEEN IT WITH WILDFIRES IN DIFFERENT PLACES, DIFFERENT RESPONSES, UM, AND WE JUST WANNA ENCOURAGE OUR RESIDENTS TO TAKE SOME TIME THIS MONTH TO PREPARE YOUR HOUSEHOLD, TO LOOK AT YOUR SUPPLIES, UM, TO LOOK AT YOUR CONTACTS FOR EMERGENCIES AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE READY TO RESPOND.
THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE INSURANCE, UM, AND REALLY HOLISTICALLY LOOK AT THE RESPONSE FOR YOUR HOME.
SO THIS IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH.
THERE IS A KIT, UM, AND, AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY DEVELOPED, UH, SOME OF THE MATERIALS THAT YOU'LL SEE HERE.
SO, UM, THESE ARE THE STEPS TO BE MORE PREPARED, MAKE A PLAN, BE INFORMED, BUILD A KIT, AND GET INVOLVED.
SO HAVING SOME SUPPLIES ON HAND WOULD REALLY MAKE IT A LOT EASIER TO RESPOND, AND WE'RE JUST PROMOTING THAT ALL MONTH LONG THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
UM, AND THROUGH, UH, RICHARDSON TODAY AS WELL.
SO WE'VE GOT BANNERS YOU'LL SEE AROUND THE CITY.
WE JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT EVERYWHERE YOU GO TO THINK ABOUT PREPAREDNESS, UM, AND BE MORE PREPARED AS YOU GO ALONG.
SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE GRAPHICS THAT OUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, UM, IS DISTRIBUTING AND YOU'LL SEE ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA IF YOU WANNA RE-SHARE THOSE.
JUST TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO GET MORE PREPARED THIS MONTH.
UM, THIS IS THE RICHARDSON TODAY, THE PRINTED MEDIA.
SO WE, WE ARE TRYING ALL FORMS. UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, WE'LL BE POSTING ALL THROUGHOUT THE MONTH AND WE DO ON OUR TWITTER PAGE AS WELL.
SO WE'D APPRECIATE ANY EXTRA SHARES.
UM, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I DID WANNA, UM, REALLY THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT THIS MONTH.
IT'S A GREAT TIME TO HIGHLIGHT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH, UM, AND TO GET MORE INVOLVED AND TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR HOUSEHOLD IS READY.
THE FIRST STEP IN DOING THAT IS TO SIGN UP FOR ALERTS AT C.NET/ALERTS.
YOU CAN GET THOSE WEATHER ALERTS, UM, THROUGH APPS AND OTHER THINGS, BUT ALSO IT'S SPECIFIC TO OUR AREA.
SO, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO TAKE THOSE STEPS TO BE PREPARED.
SO WE DO HAVE A PROCLAMATION, AS DAWN SAID, THAT WE'LL DO NEXT.
YOU GUYS COUNSEL, ANY COMMENTS FROM Y'ALL? JUST GRETCHEN RIDER.
REALLY APPRECIATE BOTH, UH, PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY, ALL OF THE GREAT UPDATES FROM Y'ALL.
AND I GUESS WE SHOULD REALLY APOLOGIZE TO SCOTT THAT TONIGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE TACOS.
WE REALLY SHOULD HAVE HAD TACOS TONIGHT.
I, I, YOU KNOW, IF WE'D HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT, WE COULD'VE HAD TACOS FOR YOU.
IT'S A LITTLE INSIDE JOKE THAT MOST OF US CATCH
AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT DOES.
UM, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, I'VE WAS A VOLUNTEER FOR RED CROSS FOR ABOUT 13 YEARS.
AND, UM, WITH PREPAREDNESS, IT'S TRULY IS ABOUT PREPARING.
'CAUSE BY THE TIME YOU NEED IT, IT'S TOO LATE.
YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IT AHEAD OF TIME.
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KITS Y'ALL PUT TOGETHER, I'VE SEEN AT A LOT OF DIFFERENT, THEY'RE WONDERFUL.I KNOW MY SON, WHEN HE WAS LITTLE, HE PUT TOGETHER A KIT AND, UM, AND IT REALLY HELPED HIM KIND OF THINK US THINK OF IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY OTHER THAN, OH, IT'S JUST SOMETHING DAD HAS ME TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE HE LOVES THE RED CROSS.
SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT AND FOR HELPING GET OUR COMMUNITY PREPARED.
UH, I WANTED TO THANK YOU, ALICIA, FOR RUNNING A VERY EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE OFFICE AND THANK YOUR STAFF FOR REALLY JUST ALWAYS GOING ABOVE, ABOVE AND BEYOND.
AND I SEE THEM AND YOU OUT EVERYWHERE.
AND SO HOW YOU HAVE TIME TO, TO MANAGE AND JUGGLE ALL THE GRANTS YOU DO, ALL THE PR STUFF YOU DO, AND THEN BEING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, IT, IT'S AMAZING.
ANYBODY ELSE? ALRIGHT, ALICIA, THANK YOU.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART, WE TRULY APPRECIATE YOU AND Y'ALL DO AMAZING WORK AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE, UM, TO HAVE YOU AND WE KNOW THAT.
KEEP DOING THE JOB YOU'RE DOING.
GREG'S READY TO TAKE A PHOTO? TAKE PICTURES.
DO YOU WANT TO PUT IT ON THE BEGINNING? DO YOU LIKE THAT ONE OR THE FIRST? THAT ONE'S, THAT ONE'S YOURS.
UM, LET'S DO, SO WE, WHAT WE DID IS WE'LL STAGGER SOME STOP.
IT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT MORE EVEN THIS WAY.
AT THIS TIME WE'RE GONNA GO TO
[C. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CITY HALL MUNICIPAL CAMPUS PLANNING UPDATE]
ITEM C, REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CITY HALL MUNICIPAL CAMPUS PLANNING UPDATE.MAYOR COUNCIL, UM, IN, IN THE COMMUNITY.
TODAY WAS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT DAY, UH, AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK TO, UH, RESPOND AND RECOVER TO THE CITY HALL.
FIRE BACK UP AUGUST 22ND, LAST YEAR, UH, TODAY WE STARTED TO MOVE OUR FIRST CITY HALL STAFF INTO THE TEMPORARY FACILITY HERE.
UH, WE WERE ABLE TO MOVE, UH, CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE, CITY SECRETARY'S, FINANCE, UH, WE'LL CONTINUE THAT RHYTHM OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS INTO ALL, UH, OF THE FOUR, UM, SATELLITE LOCATIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN USING FOR THE PAST YEAR.
UH, OCCUPY THE BUILDING AND, AND WE'LL DO THAT FOR THE NEXT THREE TO THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
AND THEN THE LIBRARY, UM, AS YOU KNOW, NOT THAT FAR BEHIND, UH, WITH ABOUT A MID-OCTOBER OPENING DATE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO, I WANNA JUST TAKE A SECOND BEFORE WE BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT THESE TWO IMPORTANT TOPICS.
UM, ONE, UH, TO, TO THANK YOU, UH, AS I WALKED AROUND TODAY AND WAS ABLE TO VISIT WITH STAFF, I'VE SEEN A, A SENSE OF, UH, PRIDE AND RELIEF THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN THE PAST 14 MONTHS.
UH, HAVING A PLACE TO REALLY HANG THEIR HAT, UH, CALL HOME AND KNOW THAT THIS IS GONNA BE THE PLAN FOR THE NEXT THREE, THREE AND A HALF YEARS WHILE WE WORK ON THESE TWO AMAZING PROJECTS, HAS MEANT ALL THE WORLD TO THEM.
AND, AND IT'S REALLY, UH, VERY EXCITING TO SEE, UM, THEM, UM, REJUVENATED, UM, REFRESHED AND, AND REALLY EXCITED TO COME BACK TOGETHER.
SO I WANNA, I WANNA REALLY THANK YOU AND THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THE SUPPORT.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE JUST A SECOND, UM, TO MENTION A FEW FOLKS.
MANY OF THEM YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM TONIGHT.
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THIS PROJECT THAT WE BEGAN TO WORK ON, UM, IT WAS REALLY JUST PRIOR TO, UH, THE BOND PROGRAM, UH, BEING CALLED BY THE COUNCIL BECAUSE WE KNEW EITHER WAY, UH, REGARDLESS OF HOW THAT, UH, BOND PROGRAM TURNED OUT, WE WOULD NEED THIS FACILITY.UM, THIS TEAM PULLED THE T TOGETHER AND, UM, UH, NOT ONLY NEGOTIATED THE LEASE, BUT DID THIS TENANT FINISH OUT AND ABOUT HALF THE TIME OF WHAT IT WOULD NORMALLY TAKE.
UM, IT, IT'S, IT'S VERY, VERY RARE TO SEE A PRO 77,000 SQUARE FOOT PROJECT, UH, BE COMPLETED, UM, IN, IN AS LITTLE AS ABOUT FIVE MONTHS, PARTICULARLY IN THIS, THIS DAY AND TIME.
AND SO FOR MY OFFICE, I WANT TO JUST THANK CHARLES GOFF.
HE'S REALLY LED THIS, UH, ENTIRE, UH, EFFORT.
OF COURSE, JIM DULAC AND OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS, OUR AWESOME PARTNERS AND, AND AECOM, UH, SADDEN, UH, SAAD APPEND CAR, DENNIS FA AND ZER HUBI.
AND THEN, UH, ANNE, WHO YOU'LL HEAR FROM JUST IN A SECOND, FROM ARCHITECT, UH, ALSO HAS BEEN, UM, JUST BIRD DOGGING THIS DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
AND THEN FROM HER TEAM, ROXANNE TORRES, WHO COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT.
BUT THIS IS THE TEAM THAT REALLY, UM, WAS ABLE TO COME TOGETHER QUICKLY, MOBILIZE, UH, PLAN, UH, CREATE THE DOC, CREATE THE DOCUMENTS, BID IT IN AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY, AND, UH, MANAGE THIS PROJECT.
SO, UH, COUNCILOR, IF YOU DON'T MIND JOINING ME, JUST GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE, APPRECIATION.
SO WITH THAT, WE'RE HERE TO CONTINUE A VERY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION THAT WE STARTED JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO ON TWO TOPICS.
UM, ONE IS THE LIBRARY, UH, ITSELF, AND THEN, AND THE SECOND IS THE, UH, CIVIC CAMPUS IN, IN THE CITY HALL BUILDING.
UM, DOUG MA MOSS, UM, IS GONNA MAKE HIS WAY TO THE PODIUM.
UM, DOUG'S GONNA COVER THE FIRST, UH, TOPIC.
AND, AND OUT OF THAT, WHAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO DO IS TO KIND OF CONFIRM A COUPLE OF THINGS, UH, WITH RESPECT TO THE LIBRARY.
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO, TO TRY TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES TONIGHT IS IT'S NOT ONLY THESE PROJECTS, UM, THE CAMPUS ITSELF AND THE LIBRARY, UM, THAT'S KIND OF HANGING IN THE BALANCE.
WE ARE, WE CANNOT REALLY LAUNCH THOROUGHLY, UH, WITHOUT HAVING THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS ON THE CITY HALL PROJECT.
AND SO THAT'S WHY, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE KIND OF FRAMED THIS, UH, THREE QUESTIONS FOR EACH.
ONE WILL BE THE, THE EAST FACADE, UH, THE OTHER, THE MAIN LIBRARY ENTRANCE, AND THEN THE ADDITIONAL ELEVATOR IN, IN THE LIBRARY.
IF WE CAN WRAP THOSE, UH, RESOLVE THOSE ISSUES TONIGHT.
WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED TO BEGIN REALLY A A SIGNIFICANT PLAN DEVELOPMENT EFFORT MOVING FORWARD, UM, ON THE CAMPUS, UH, ITSELF.
AND, AND, UH, THIS IS WHERE ANN WILL, WILL TAKE OVER.
WE'RE LOOK REALLY LOOKING, UM, TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW WE WILL ADDRESS THE FUTURE BUILDING EXPANSION QUESTION.
AND WE THINK WE HAVE A, A SOLUTION TO THAT.
UM, WE KNOW THERE'S A, A PARKING QUESTION AND WE BELIEVE WE HAVE A PHASE SOLUTION TO THAT.
AND THEN FINALLY, UM, MAYBE MOST IMPORTANTLY IS THE STREET VERSUS THE PEDESTRIAN MALL, UM, UM, UH, ISSUE TO RESOLVE, UH, ON THE, UH, ON THE, UH, BETWEEN THE TWO BUILDINGS.
AND SO, AGAIN, IF WE CAN COME OUT OF THE, THE SECOND PAR PORTION OF THE BRIEFING WITH THOSE ANSWERS, WE BELIEVE WHAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED TO PROGRESS THESE PROJECTS, UM, IN, IN THE WAY WE SAID WE WOULD PREVIOUSLY ON THE TIMELINE.
AND ALSO BEGIN SOME REALLY IMPORTANT WORK ON THE CITY HALL BUILDING ITSELF.
AND SO DOUG AND NAN, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE.
I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE JENNY DAVISON, OUR LIBRARY DIRECTOR, UH, JENNY HAS BEEN, UH, ON THIS JOURNEY, UM, WHICH IS, UH, FROM THE LIBRARY STANDPOINT HAS CHANGED QUITE A BIT AS WELL.
AND UH, JENNY, THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
SO DOUG, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.
UH, MAYOR COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR LETTING US, UH, SHARE WITH YOU KIND OF AN UPDATE.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, AS THE CITY MANAGER SAID, KIND OF ASK YOU TO CONFIRM AND TO REVIEW JUST A FEW VERY, UH, SPECIFIC AREAS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, TO GET YOUR COMMENTARY ON.
SO THIS, THIS IS OUR AGENDA TONIGHT.
I, WE CAN GO THROUGH THIS FAIRLY QUICKLY.
UH, THE, THE SCHEDULE, WE'RE RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
WE ARE RIGHT AT ABOUT 50% COMPLETE WITH OUR CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS.
WE'LL BE FINISHED WITH THOSE BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE, UH, OUR CONSTRUCTION MANAGER HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS GETTING THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
AND WE'LL BE READY TO START CONSTRUCTION IN THE FIRST, UH, FIRST QUARTER, THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2024.
THE, UH, GUIDING PRINCIPLES YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.
SO THIS IS JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE IN FRONT OF YOU.
BUT THE THING THAT WE REALLY WANT TO, UM, HIGHLIGHT TONIGHT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE CLEAR ABOUT.
AND IF WE HAVE, IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE CAN GO OVER THOSE DEALS WITH THE GLASS FACADE FACING THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
WE ALSO WANNA MAKE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE NEW ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY ON THE FIRST LEVEL.
AND THEN WE ALSO WANNA TALK ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL ELEVATOR, BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE MEETING WITH YOU ALL, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL BROUGHT UP IS, LET'S MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT, UH, NUMBER OF ELEVATORS AND THAT WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT CAPACITY.
SO WE WANT TO COME BACK AND ADDRESS THAT TOPIC, GIVE YOU SOME MORE DATA ABOUT THAT SO THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT THE, UH, THE ELEVATOR THIS EVENING.
SO THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING, THIS IS THE VIEW AS THOUGH YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FOUNTAIN LOOKING, UH, AT WHAT WE CALL AS ARCHITECTS, THE EAST ELEVATION.
THIS IS THE ELEVATION THAT WILL ULTIMATELY BE FACING THE NEW CITY HALL.
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WE ARE PROPOSING IS TO TURN THAT SAME VIEW INTO THIS.SO THE, UM, THIRD FLOOR HAS, UH, ILLUSTRATED IN THIS DIAGRAM, THIS RENDERING ALL GLASS ON THE THIRD FLOOR.
AND THIS CAME ABOUT BECAUSE WE'RE NOW PUTTING ALL OF THE ADULT COLLECTION ON THE THIRD FLOOR, BUT THERE'S NOT A LOT OF LIGHT ON THE THIRD FLOOR.
AND SO THIS NEW GLASS WALL, WHICH IS CURRENTLY IN THE BUDGET, ALLOWS US TO HAVE GREAT LIGHT INSIDE THE BUILDING.
GREAT VIEWS OUT TO THE FOUNTAIN.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT SAID THAT HAVING A VIEW OF THE FOUNTAIN IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
BEING ABLE TO LOOK OUT AND SEE THE LANDSCAPE IS IMPORTANT.
AND SO THIS IS ONE OF THE, UH, THE VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENTS.
WE'D LIKE TO GET YOUR COMMENTARY AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS.
WE DISCUSSED WITH YOU IN THE PAST, BUT WE HAVE FURTHER DEVELOPED THE NEW ENTRY, WHICH WE ARE PROPOSING ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE BUILDING.
SO THIS WOULD BE AN ENTRY THAT WOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO A NEW DROP OFF LANE, WHICH IS ILLUSTRATED HERE.
IT'S ALSO AN ENTRY THAT WOULD BE VERY CLOSE VISUALLY AND FOR PEDESTRIANS TO ACCESS THE FOUNTAIN.
AND IT WILL ALSO BE AN ENTRY THAT WOULD BE DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE NEW CITY HALL LOCATION.
UH, THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS JUST SHOWING, UM, AN ENLARGED AREA TO SHOW THAT NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE DOORS FACING THE SOUTH WHERE THE, THE, UH, THE PASSENGER DROP OFF AND THE HANDICAPPED PARKING WOULD BE, BUT WE ALSO HAVE DOORS FACING THE EAST WHERE PEOPLE WOULD BE COMING IN EITHER FROM THE CITY HALL OR IF THEY'RE COMING IN, UH, AFTER THEY'VE GONE, WALKED THROUGH THE, UH, THE FOUNTAIN AREA.
SO THIS IS A, A VERY PROMINENT NEW FRONT DOOR.
AND WE'VE MADE IT PROMINENT BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ASKED, LET'S MAKE SURE WE HAVE A PROMINENT FRONT DOOR.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE HAVE AN UNCERTAINTY IN THE, IN THE CURRENT BUILDING OF WHERE WAS THE FRONT DOOR.
SO THIS IS TO HELP, UH, SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MINUTE SOMEONE GETS OUTTA THEIR CAR, THAT THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO THEIR FRONT DOOR.
THIS IS AN IMAGE AS THOUGH YOU ARE JUST ABOUT TO DRIVE UP TO THE NEW DROP OFF.
AND THIS IS THE NEW LIBRARY ENTRANCE.
YOU CAN SEE THE TWO SETS OF DOORS FACING THE SOUTH WITH A SIGNAGE.
AND THEN THIS IS THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
WE'RE ALSO ILLUSTRATING IN THIS RENDERING, UH, HAVING GLASS ON THE THIRD FLOOR DIRECTLY ABOVE THE NEW ENTRANCE.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF GLASS FACING THE EAST, AND WE HAVE SOME GLASS FACING THE SOUTH ON THAT THIRD FLOOR.
THIS IMAGE ALSO SHOWS SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S NEW.
AND THERE IS A NEW PUBLIC STAIRCASE.
AND THIS IS A STAIRCASE THAT IT IS USED FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, AND IT IS USED FOR PEOPLE TO EGRESS THE BUILDING, BUT IT'S ALSO USED AS A WAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WALK UP AND DOWN THROUGH THE BUILDING.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ALWAYS USE THE ELEVATOR.
SOME PEOPLE PREFER TO TAKE THE STAIR, BUT THIS WILL ACTUALLY BE A STAIR THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO USE.
IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUILDING, BUILDING THAT HAS NO WINDOWS THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF GLASS ON THIS.
YOU CAN SEE THE, THE BLUE, WHICH SHOWS THE RAILING AS YOU'RE GOING FROM.
UH, ALL FOUR OF THE FLOORS ARE CONNECTED BY THIS, UM, NEW STAIRCASE.
THIS IS A PLAN OF THE, UH, NEW STAIRCASE.
SO THIS IS THE WALL OF THE SOUTH EDGE OF THE BUILDING.
AND THIS IS AN ELEVATOR, WHICH CURRENTLY WE USE AS THE SERVICE ELEVATOR, BUT IN THE NEW PLAN WE'LL BE USING IT AS A PASSENGER ELEVATOR.
AND THIS STAIRCASE IS ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION.
SO THIS IS A PART THAT WE WERE JUST SHOWING IN THIS RENDERING.
SO THIS PORTION IS A VERY GENEROUS WIDTH AND IT TAKES YOU FROM THE FIRST LEVEL DOWN ONE LEVEL AS WELL AS ALL THE WAY UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR.
BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT NEXT IS THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT, WHICH SHOWS IF WE WANTED TO ADD ANOTHER ELEVATOR, WHICH WAS ONE OF YOUR ALL'S QUESTIONS, WHERE WOULD IT GO? HOW BIG WOULD IT BE? HOW WOULD IT BE FUNCTION? HOW WOULD IT FUNCTION, ET CETERA.
AND SO THE IMAGE ON THE LEFT IS THE STAIRCASE IS IN OUR CURRENT BUDGET.
THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS BEYOND THE, THE ORIGINAL TARGET BUDGET THAT WE HAD.
AND, AND WE'LL DISCUSS THAT IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT WE WILL THAT LOCATING THE ELEVATOR IN THIS LOCATION, UH, A NEW ELEVATOR WOULD BE THE BEST LOCATION.
AND THE REASON IT'S THERE IS BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT IN THIS EXISTING BUILDING TO PUT ANOTHER HOLE ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BUILDING.
SO THIS IS AN ELEVATOR THAT IS OUTSIDE OF THE EXISTING, UM, STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING.
SO THAT'S THE REASON IT'S SO FAR AWAY FROM WHERE THIS, UM, THIS WALL IS.
THIS IS AN IMAGE AS IF THE NEW ELEVATOR WAS INCLUDED.
SO ON THE LEFT IS THE STAIR THAT I JUST SHOWED YOU A MINUTE AGO, BUT ON THE RIGHT WOULD BE THE ADDITION OF THE NEW ELEVATOR.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ELEVATOR CAB HAPPENS TO BE ON THE, THE SECOND FLOOR HERE.
SO IT IS SOME DIFFERENCE ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING, AND YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO, AS YOU'RE WALKING INTO THE BUILDING, BE ABLE TO P P SEE PEOPLE GOING BOTH, UH, UP THE STAIRCASE AS WELL AS THE, UH, THE ELEVATOR.
SO NOW LEMME SHARE WITH YOU SOME NUMBERS BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY TRYING TO RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTION THE LAST TIME.
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IS, IF WE'RE GONNA SPEND ALL THIS MONEY, LET'S MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE PROPER AMOUNT OF CAPACITY FOR, UH, THE ELEVATOR USAGE.SO FOR, UM, ELEVATOR TALK, PEOPLE TALK ABOUT A W T, WHICH MEANS THE AVERAGE WAIT TIME.
SO IF YOU'RE AT THE FIRST FLOOR, YOU'VE JUST COME IN, YOU'VE PRESSED YOUR, YOUR UP BUTTON OR YOUR DOWN BUTTON, HOW MANY SECONDS DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE SOME ELEVATOR COMES TO TAKE YOU TO YOUR FLOOR? AND UH, IF IT'S LESS THAN 25 SECONDS, IT'S EXCELLENT.
IF IT'S, UH, OVER 30 SECONDS, IT'S GOOD.
IF IT'S OVER 35, IT'S MARGINAL, ET CETERA.
CURRENTLY, UM, IN THE PLAN THAT WE HAVE, ASSUMING THAT ALL THREE OF THE ELEVATORS THAT, UH, WE HAVE IN OUR, IN OUR PROPOSED PLAN ARE PASSENGER ELEVATORS AND ASSUMING THAT THERE ARE OVER 1500 PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING.
SO THIS BOX ON THE LEFT ASSUMES, UH, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ON EACH OF THESE FLOORS.
YOU'LL SEE SOME FLOORS HAVE OVER 600 PEOPLE.
EVEN IF WE HAVE THE ENTIRE BUILDING FILLED TO THAT CAPACITY AND WE HAVE THOSE THREE ELEVATORS OPERATING, WE WILL BE AT THE 30 SECONDS.
UH, WHICH IS A GOOD LEVEL OF SERVICE.
UM, THIS DOES NOT ASSUME THAT WE HAVE A GREAT NEW STAIRCASE.
SO WE BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO USE THE STAIR EITHER TO GO UP OR TO COME DOWN.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE.
WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S 2% OR 20%, BUT WE THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO USE THAT.
WE ALSO DON'T THINK THAT WE WILL EVER HAVE 1500 PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING.
UH, THIS ASSUMES THAT EVERY SINGLE CHAIR, EVERY SINGLE DESK, EVERY SINGLE GUEST CHAIR IN THE OFFICES, EVERYTHING IS FILLED TO CAPACITY.
IN ORDER TO GET THAT 1500 TO GIVE YOU ALL AN IDEA ON A VERY, VERY BUSY PRE COVID DAY, WE WOULD HAVE 1200 PEOPLE IN THE LIBRARY FOR THE ENTIRE DAY.
NOT A, NOT A ONE TIME, BUT THE ENTIRE DAY.
SO THAT'S JUST TO KIND OF HELP YOU ALL UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE NUMBERS, TO HELP YOU KIND OF THINK THROUGH THE PROS AND THE CONS OF WHETHER OR NOT WE TRY TO ADD THAT ELEVATOR.
UM, WE ARE VERY COMFORTABLE NOT HAVING A PA FREIGHT ELEVATOR IN THE BUILDING BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT LIBRARIANS RESHELVE BOOKS WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO, TO USE THE PASSENGER ELEVATORS AT THE SAME TIME THAT THERE MAY BE A STAFF MEMBER IN IT.
WE THINK THAT'S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE.
AND, UM, AND THERE'S A NUMBER OF KIND OF OTHER DATA HERE THAT WE CAN COME BACK AND, AND LOOK AT IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH BALFOUR BEATTY.
UH, IN OUR INITIAL DESIGNS, WE THINK THE IDEA OF HAVING A A NEW GLASS ELEVATOR WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF A MILLION DOLLARS IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE HAVE IN THE BUDGET CURRENTLY.
SO LEMME JUST STOP THERE AND SEE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO I CAN MAKE SURE YOU AT LEAST HAVE ALL THE DATA YOU NEED TO, TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
IF I UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY ON THAT NEW DESIGN STAIRCASE, YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE PEOPLE COULD MOVE IN, COULD, COULD ENTER THAT AND GO BETWEEN THE FLOORS, BUT THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO EXIT OUT THAT IT WOULD BE AN ONLY, IT WOULD BE AN OUTSIDE EXIT ONLY.
IS THAT WHAT I UNDERSTOOD YOU SAY FROM THE ELEVATORS? NO, NO, NO, NO.
THE STAIRWELL, THE STAIRCASE, THE STAIRCASE IS ONLY USED TO BE ABLE TO TAKE YOU FROM FLOOR TO FLOOR.
NOW, THERE IS AN EMERGENCY DOORWAY THAT IF THERE WAS AN EMERGENCY YOU COULD GET OUT THAT PATHWAY.
BUT IN TERMS, THERE'S NO WAY TO COME IN THAT DIRECTION.
IT IS ONLY AN EMERGENCY EGRESS ONLY, IT'S REALLY THE STAIRS IS INTENDED TO JUST GET PEOPLE UP AND DOWN THE BUILDING.
THE ONLY WAY FOR THE CUSTOMER BASE TO COME IN WOULD BE THIS ENTRANCE WAY.
I UNDERSTAND, BUT THEN WHEN YOU GET TO THE FIRST FLOOR, DO YOU EXIT BACK INTO THE LIBRARY ITSELF? THAT IS CORRECT.
AND THEN THE EMERGENCY EXIT WOULD BE ALARMED? THAT IS CORRECT.
I'M, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE, 'CAUSE I THOUGHT WHAT YOU WERE SAYING WAS THE ONLY EXIT OUT IS OUT TO THE PARKING LOT AND I WAS CONCERNED THAT THERE WOULD TO BE THEFT AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT POTENTIALLY THAT SOMEONE COULD EXACTLY.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A CONTROL WITH ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS THROUGH THIS ONE LOCATION, WHETHER THEY'RE COMING IN OR LEAVING.
YOU SAID THE STAIRCASE IS GONNA BE A LITTLE WIDER THAN USUAL.
OR A TRADITIONAL, I MEAN, AND THAT'S ALSO GONNA BECOME MORE OF AN ARCHITECTURAL PIECE OF THE BUILDING.
DO YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THE WEEDS ON THIS, BUT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE, THE RISER AND THE TREAD, UM, HEIGHT IS? I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY.
BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU.
BUT IT, BUT IT'S ALSO NOT VERY STEEP.
WE, WE'VE TRIED TO MAKE IT VERY COMFORTABLE SO THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO USE.
SO THAT WAS KIND OF MY THOUGHT TO WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT MAXING IT OUT BASED ON WHAT THE MAXIMUM, UH, RISE IS.
MR. CHU, UH, QUESTION, UH, I KNOW THE DROPOFF AREA, IS THERE ANY REASON THAT, THAT YOU COULD NOT, OR
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YOU DID NOT PUT ANY COVERED DROP-OFF AREA? WE HAVEN'T.WE'VE JUST TRIED TO BE, UM, COGNIZANT OF, UH, NOT GOING TOO FAR BEYOND THE FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING BECAUSE ONE OF OUR VERY EARLY TENANTS THAT YOU ALL ASKED US TO DO IS TO ADD VERY, VERY MINIMAL TO NO ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOTAGE.
AND SO WE HAVE TRIED TO RESPECT THAT.
THE, THE NEW STAIRCASE IS A LITTLE BIT OF SQUARE FOOTAGE AND THEN THE NEW ENTRANCE IS A LITTLE BIT, UH, WE DO HAVE A CANOPY THAT, UM, EXCEEDS ABOUT FIVE OR SIX FEET PAST THE EDGE OF THE BUILDING, BUT WE HAVEN'T TAKEN IT ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE DROP OFF.
NOW, DO YOU HAVE, I MEAN, WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS? NOT HAVING A DROP OFF OTHER THAN NOT IN THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AREA, BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE THERE ANOTHER LONG, LONG TIME BEFORE YOU WE TALK ABOUT THAT, SO, RIGHT.
WHAT ARE THE PRO WELL, THE, FROM WHEN THIS CAR, UH, THIS, THIS CAR RIGHT HERE WOULD BE ABOUT 22 FEET FROM IT TO THE DOORWAY.
SO IT'D BE ABOUT 15 FEET BEFORE YOU GET TO UNDERNEATH THE COVER IF IT'S, SAY A, A RAINY DAY.
UH, I THINK THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE IDEA OF ADDING, UH, AN EXTENDED CANOPY IS JUST ADDITIONAL COSTS AND ADDITIONAL, UH, TIME.
I'M SURE IT WOULD BE, UH, SOMETHING THAT, THAT MIGHT BE USED BY SOME, BUT IT'S, UH, HASN'T BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE EXPLORED RIGHT NOW.
TO, TO A DISPENSARY WHERE PEOPLE COULD DROP OFF AND THEIR BOOKS AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
FOR BOOK DROP OFF ONLY, WE HAVE AN ENTIRELY NEW DRIVE LANE THAT'S ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE BUILDING THAT WOULD BE LOCATED RIGHT HERE.
BUT THAT WOULD ONLY BE TO DROP BOOKS OFF.
YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO ENTER THE BUILDING RIGHT AT THAT LOCATION.
THANK SO WE, SO WE STILL HAVE THAT, THAT'S A VERY, THAT'S A VERY KEY FEATURE.
ANY QUESTIONS FURTHER BEFORE WE GO BACK? GO INTO THE INTERIOR DESIGN ASPECT? YEAH, DOUG, I, I, I THINK, UH, COUNCILMAN HUTCHEN, RIGHT? I THINK IF, IF WE COULD JUST GET A A A, A SIMPLE HEAD SHAKE IF THE, ON THESE THREE POINTS, IF EVERYBODY IS COMFORTABLE, UM, WE WILL USE THAT CONFIRMATION TO MOVE FORWARD AS I DESCRIBED.
SO BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE SAYING HERE IS WE'RE GOOD WITH THIS WITHOUT THE FOURTH ELEVATOR.
I'M GOOD WITH IT WITHOUT, WITHOUT THE ELEVATOR, WITHOUT SAVE A MILLION DOLLARS.
AND I THINK YOU NOT SAVE IT, BUT NOT SPEND IT
LET'S GO TO THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DISCUSSED WITH YOU ALL, UM, IS ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING IS A VERY LARGE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM, WHICH IS ILLUSTRATED IN THIS DIAGRAM.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO MAJOR WAYS, UM, OF GETTING INTO THE ROOM.
AND THEN THERE'S A LOT OF GLASS ALONG THIS, THIS WALL.
UH, THIS GLASS LOOKS OUT INTO THIS AREA, WHICH WE'RE CALLING THE, THE GALLERY SPACE, WHICH IS A VERY FLEXIBLE SPACE THAT CAN BE USED BY THE COMMUNITY FOR ALL KINDS OF EVENTS.
AND THIS IS IN OUR CURRENT BUDGET.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO DISCUSS WITH YOU IS THE IDEA, THERE'S BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HAVING MOSTLY GLASS, BUT HAVING A LOT MORE DOORS SO THAT IF THOSE DOORS WERE ALL OPEN, YOU COULD ALMOST HAVE FOLKS COMING FROM THIS GALLERY SPACE INTO THIS MEETING SPACE.
SO IT'S REALLY A QUESTION ABOUT ADDING MORE GLASS DOORS.
SO IT'S STILL A MOSTLY GLASS WALL, BUT IT ALLOWS THAT WALL TO BE MORE FLUID INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING THOSE TWO POINTS OF ENTRY ON THE, UH, ON THE DIAGRAM THAT'S ON THE LEFT, WE HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING VERY HARD WITH THE LIBRARY LEADERSHIP, THE LIBRARY STAFF, AND THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON CHOOSING THE, UH, INTER FINISHED PALETTE FOR THE ENTIRE BUILDING.
THIS IMAGE ON THE LOWER LEFT REPRESENTS THE RANGE OF FABRICS, THE RANGE OF COLORS, UH, KIND OF THE DIRECTION, UH, THAT WE ARE ARE TAKING WITH THAT COMMITTEE ON HOW TO DEVELOP ALL OF THE FURNITURE, THE CARPETS, THE WALLS, ET CETERA.
WE ARE TARGETING, MAKING SURE THIS IS A TIMELESS BUILDING.
WE DO NOT WANT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO WEAR OUT QUICKLY.
WE DO NOT WANT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THIS IS NOT A GRAY BUILDING.
THIS IS A BUILDING THAT HAS LIFE TO IT.
IT'S A PLACE THAT KIDS WANT TO COME TO.
IT'S A PLACE THAT ADULTS WANT TO COME TO AND THEY'LL FIND THEIR SPECIAL CORNER AND WANT TO BE IN THAT PLACE.
THE INSPIRATION FOR ALL THIS CAME FROM THE EXTRAORDINARY WILDFLOWER FIELDS THAT ARE IN FRONT OF THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING ON A, ON A REGULAR BASIS.
PEOPLE LOVE BEING A PART OF THAT.
AND WE'RE TAKING THAT INTO THIS BUILDING AND USING THAT AS OUR INSPIRATION AS WE
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DEVELOP THE, THE INTERIORS.I'M NOW GOING TO SHOW YOU A SERIES OF RENDERINGS OF THE INTERIOR, BUT THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE EXACT COLORS AND FABRICS AND FINISHES 'CAUSE WE'RE STILL WORKING ALL THAT ON ALL THAT.
BUT IT WILL GIVE YOU AN INDICATION OF WHAT'S THAT SPACE GOING TO FEEL LIKE.
SO, SO DON'T LOOK AT THE COLOR OF THE WALL OF THE CARPET, BUT DO LOOK AT, IS THIS A SPACE THAT, THAT OUR CITIZENS ARE GOING TO LOVE TO BE IN? SO THIS IS THE ENTRANCE, UM, IN WHAT WE'VE BEEN CALLING THE RICHARDSON LIVING ROOM.
PEOPLE WALK IN THE DOOR, THERE'S GOING TO BE ACCESS TO ALL KINDS OF NEW BOOKS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE DIRECTORIES THAT ALLOW YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET TO PLACES.
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE INTO THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE INTO THE LARGE PRINT COLLECTION.
YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT HERE HOW TO START USING THAT STAIRCASE WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT AND GOING UP TO DIFFERENT FLOORS.
SO IT'S A VERY EXCITING PLACE.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN A LIBRARY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN A SPECIAL PLACE.
THIS IS AN IMAGE OF THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.
IT'S THE FIRST LEVEL OF THE TWO LEVELS.
AND IT SHOWS A STAIRCASE THAT WOULD TAKE YOU FROM ONE LEVEL UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
AND IT SHOWS ALL THE FURNITURE THAT'S GOING TO BE SCALED AT A DIFFERENT SCALE FOR THE KIDS, UH, FURNITURE THAT'S WIDER.
SO THAT A, THAT A PARENT AND A AND A CHILD CAN BOTH BE SITTING ON ONE, UH, CHAIR AND AND READ TO EACH OTHER.
SO THERE'S LOTS OF EXCITING THINGS.
THE SCALE OF EVERYTHING IS VERY DIFFERENT IN THIS PORTION OF THE LIBRARY.
THIS IS THE NEW LOCAL HISTORY ROOM.
YOU HAVE AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF ARTIFACTS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T GET A CHANCE TO SEE.
AND THIS LOCAL HISTORY ROOM WILL NOT ONLY HAVE THE, THE, THE PHYSICAL COLLECTION, BUT WILL ALSO HAVE DISPLAYS AND, UM, AND BOOKS THAT WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME AND VISIT THIS SPACE AND TO SEE ALL THE THINGS THAT, UH, OF THE PAST AND OF THE FUTURE.
FOR RICHARDSON, THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE.
THIS IS THE TEEN CENTER THAT'S ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE JUVENILE SECTION, BUT SEPARATE.
THE TEENS WANT THEIR OWN LITTLE HIDEOUT.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SOME GREAT PLACES FOR TEENS TO KIND OF, UH, HANG OUT AND, AND HIDE AWAY OR READ A GREAT BOOK.
THERE ARE SOME STUDY ROOMS, THERE'S SOME STUDY ROOMS AT THE BACK.
THERE'S FURNITURE THAT'S ON WHEELS THAT CAN BE MOVED AROUND AND, AND ADJUSTED BASED ON WHAT THOSE USERS WOULD LIKE.
BUT IT'S A VERY EXCITING PLACE AND A PLACE THAT HAS LOTS OF GLA GLASS AND LIGHT AND NATURAL, NATURAL LIGHT.
THIS IS AN IMAGE AS THOUGH YOU'RE ON THE TOP FLOOR OF THE BUILDING.
AND THIS IS THE GLASS WALL THAT TODAY IS A SOLID CONCRETE WALL.
SO THAT IMAGE THAT ONE OF THOSE FIRST IMAGES I SHOWED YOU OF MAKING THE NEW EAST WALL ALL GLASS, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE ON THE INSIDE.
SO THIS GENTLEMAN IS, UH, TAKING IN THE VIEW OF THIS NEW, UH, OF THE FOUNTAIN THAT'S OUT.
NOT THE NEW FOUNTAIN, BUT THE EXISTING FOUNTAIN THAT'S OUT FRONT.
AND IT KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THE STACKS ARE FURTHER BACK IN THE PLAN, WHICH IS TO THE LEFT.
AND ALL OF THE SEATING AREA IS PULLED OUT RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE ALL THE GLASS, UH, TO, TO THE, TO WHERE THEY'RE CLOSEST TO THE GLASS IS.
SO THAT'S KIND OF OUR SUMMARY.
UH, IF THERE ARE ITEMS, AND YOU'VE ALREADY ANSWERED THESE THREE QUESTIONS, SO WE'RE, WE'RE WAY AHEAD OF EACH OF OURSELVES.
IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE US TO GO BACK OR IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, WE'D BE HAPPY TO TO RESPOND TO THOSE.
ANYBODY? JUST, JUST ONE BRIEF QUESTION.
CAN YOU GO BACK ONE SLIDE? YES.
I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE LACK OF ELECTRICAL, AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW YOU'RE GOING TO IN THE, ESPECIALLY IN THE TEEN AREA.
'CAUSE I KNOW MY DAUGHTERS BACK WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER, THEY BURNED THROUGH THEIR BATTERY ON BOTH THEIR IPADS AND THEIR IPHONES ALL THE TIME.
AND WE'RE CONSTANTLY CHARGING.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY, THE ONLY, AGAIN, NOT TRYING TO GET IN THE WEEDS, BUT JUST THAT ONE QUESTION.
'CAUSE THEN WE HAD A, WE HAD A TON OF INPUT ABOUT ELECTRICAL.
WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF NEW OUTLETS IN THE PUBLIC AREAS.
SO THERE ARE OUTLETS EVERYWHERE IN THE FURNITURE, IN THE WALLS, IN THE FLOOR, UH, THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A, UH, A DEARTH OF, UM, UH, OUTLETS.
SO NOW WE'RE GONNA TRANSITION TO THE CAMPUS AND ANN'S TIMMEL, IF I CAN ASK YOU TO COME UP.
OH, I THINK WE HAVE A QUESTION.
NO, IT'S, I I'M JUST TRYING, OH, I'M SORRY.
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
UM, SO JUST LIKE THE LIBRARY, THE CITY HALL AND CAMPUS ALSO HAS GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT WE'LL STILL BE REFERENCING.
THEY'RE THE SAME ONES WE PRESENTED LAST TIME.
BUT WHAT WE WANNA TALK ABOUT TONIGHT IS, UM, THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, DISCUSSED AT THE LAST CITY COUNCIL, UH, MEETING.
AND WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THESE THREE POINTS THAT, UH, WE DISCUSSED, WHICH IS REVIEW THE PLANNING OF, UH, FOR BUILDING EXPANSION, UM, REVIEW PARKING QUANTITY AND REVIEW THE PLAZA DESIGN WITH REGARD TO
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THE MAIN DRIVE AND HOW TO MAKE THAT SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS.THIS IS, UH, THE IMAGE THAT WE PRESENTED THE LAST TIME OF OPTION A THAT WE PROCEEDED FORWARD WITH TO LOOK AT THOSE DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
SO TO TOUCH UPON THE BUILDING EXPANSION, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING FORWARD AT LOOKING AT WHAT THE BUILDING FORM IS GOING TO BECOME AND WHAT THE, UM, DESIGN IS.
AND SO IN THAT CONSIDERATION, WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT WHERE YOU HAVE THE SOLID BLUE BOX IS THE FIRST FLOOR CARRYING THE STRUCTURE AND THE FOUNDATION AT THAT LEVEL, UM, TO CARRY THE POTENTIAL LOADS OF THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR.
AND THEN WITH THE DESIGN OF THE BUILDING FORM, HOW WE CAN DESIGN THE FORM TO INCLUDE THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR IN FUTURE EXPANSIONS.
THOSE ARE CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT.
AND JUST SO, UM, THAT IT'S NOT CONFUSING, THESE TOP TWO AREAS IS A PART OF THE PARAPET.
IT'S NOT IN A FOURTH FLOOR BECAUSE AS WE DISCUSSED THE LAST TIME, ADDING A FOURTH FLOOR, UM, BECOMES A LITTLE BIT COST PROHIBITIVE WITH OUR CURRENT BUDGET.
SO THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE THINK WE CAN CONTINUE TO EXPLORE IN THE NEXT PHASE OF THIS PROJECT.
SO THE OTHER ITEM WE LOOKED AT IS, UM, REDUCING THE PARKING.
UM, SO WHEN WE FIRST DID LOOKED AT THE PARKING, WE LOOKED AT IT USING THE BUSINESS ZONING REQUIREMENTS, UH, WHICH IS HOW WE CAME UP WITH, UM, OPTION A, SO TO REDUCE THE PARKING.
HOW WE DID THAT AS WE LOOKED AT THE EXISTING, UH, NUMBER OF CURRENT STAFF.
AND THEN WE DID A, UM, PROJECTION OF, UH, TWO STAFF PER YEAR GROWTH OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO ACCOMMODATE SOME EXPANSION IN THE PARKING.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOKED AT, UM, THE SQUARE FOOTAGES OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBER AND THE MEETING ROOMS AND LOOKED AT THAT WITH THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS.
SO IF THERE ARE EVENTS GOING ON WHILE STAFF IS WORKING SIMULTANEOUSLY, THERE'S ENOUGH PARKING TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THE PARKING THAT WE DISCUSSED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO ALSO, UM, REMOVE SOME PARKING HERE.
YOU STILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY IF YOU NEED THAT PARKING TO ADD IT BACK IN THE FUTURE.
SO THEN WE WENT AND LOOKED AT THE, UM, HOW TO, UM, BETTER MAKE OPTION A, UM, SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS.
AND SO, UM, WE WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT THE SURVEY RESULTS AND, UM, IT WAS A 52% REQUEST OF HAVING AN ENTRANCE AND EXIT FROM ARAPAHO.
AND THEN THESE OTHER, UM, HAVING JUST BETTER ACCESS OVERALL IT WAS DESIRED BY THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOKED AT WAYS WE CAN SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC TO COME THROUGH INTO THE MAIN DRIVE AND STILL HAVE IT BE THE SYMMETRICAL FORMAL ENTRANCE THAT WE WANTED.
SO HERE ARE SOMES FEATURES THAT WE, WE DISCUSSED.
SO WE NARROWED DOWN THE DRIVE HERE.
WE'VE CREATED A CURB AND LANDSCAPE AREA HERE.
AND THEN DOWN HERE WE START TO DEVELOP A, WHAT WE CALL A PILLOW TOP.
AND WE WILL HAVE IMAGERY IN JUST A MOMENT TO SHARE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
AND WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS VERY DISTINCT AREAS HERE AND HERE OF WHERE PEDESTRIANS COULD SAFELY CROSS OVER THE STREET.
AND WE WOULD, UM, HAVE LANDSCAPE BARRIERS HERE, UM, ADJACENT TO THE FOUNTAIN.
WE ALSO, UM, LOOKED AT THE TREES THAT ARE EXISTING IN THIS AREA.
AND CURRENTLY THEY'RE BERMED OR THEY HAVE EXISTING SMALL LOW RETAINING WALLS THERE.
SO WE'RE, UM, IMPLEMENTING NEW RETAINING WALLS AROUND THIS AREA TO ALSO HELP SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC AS THEY DRIVE THROUGH THE SPACE.
WE STILL HAVE THIS T HERE, WHICH WHEN YOU COME HERE, YOU STOP, PAUSE AND YOU'RE ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT DIRECTION, UM, UH, THROUGH THE CAMPUS YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUE.
AND THEN WE, UM, SHOW HERE AT THESE THREE LOCATIONS, REMOVABLE BOLLARDS FOR IF YOU DO HAVE AN EVENT, YOU CAN CLOSE OFF AND HAVE THIS, UM, ENTIRE SPACE HERE FOR AN EVENT.
SO THESE ARE SOME IMAGES THAT WE PULLED TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE SAFETY FEATURES.
UM, AND SOME OF THESE PLACES ARE LOCAL AND, UM, THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO VISIT AND SEE, UM, LIKE LEGACY WEST AND CITY LINE AND, UM, UT ALUMNI CENTER.
SO YOU CAN SEE HERE HOW SOME OF THESE, UM, FEATURES ARE BEING CREATED.
SO HERE'S A CURB WITH LANDSCAPE AND THEN THE PLAZA IN THE CENTER TO KIND OF GIVE THAT BUFFER AND SAFETY.
THEN THERE'S ALSO THE PILLOW TOP DRIVE HERE IN THIS IMAGE.
SO YOU CAN SEE HERE YOU DRIVE UP SO THAT THE PLAZA IS LEVEL.
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DOMES FOR CANE DETECTION FOR THOSE THAT ARE IMPAIRED, UM, SITE IMPAIRED.AND THERE'S BOLLARDS HERE TO HELP INDICATE WHERE THE PEDESTRIANS ARE TO PA UM, TO CROSS.
THERE'S ALSO, UM, PAVING HERE, UH, PAVERS TO KIND OF INDICATE A CHANGE IN THE DRIVE TO HELP SLOW DOWN DRIVERS.
THIS ALSO SHOWS A NARROWER DRIVE IN THIS LOCATION.
THESE TWO IMAGES EXPRESS NOT, UM, THE LOW RETAINING WALLS HERE AT PLANTERS OR A FOUNTAIN.
AND ALSO THERE'S KEY POINTS OF WHERE SEEDING COULD GO.
UM, ALTHOUGH IT'S CLOSE TO THE DRIVE, IT STILL IS SAFE.
AND THEN HERE AT THE UT ALUMNI CENTER, UM, JUST A CLOSE DROP OFF, SOMETHING WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT AND EXPLORE FOR THE ENTRANCE AT, UM, CITY HALL.
SO THE OTHER OPTION THAT WE LOOKED AT WAS REMOVING THE DRIVE COMPLETELY AND MAKING ONE LARGE PLAZA.
AND THIS WOULD HELP WITH PEDESTRIANS CROSSING BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS WITHOUT CROSSING A ROAD.
AND THEN ALSO CREATE, UM, FLEXIBILITY BETWEEN THE TWO SPACES.
SO THIS IS THIS IMAGE, SO WE'RE STILL MAINTAINING THE ART PIECE AND THE RETAINING WALLS HERE.
THE BOLLARDS WOULD STILL BE REMOVABLE AT THIS LOCATION, SO YOU COULD STILL CLOSE OFF THE DRIVE AND HAVE A LARGE EVENT.
AND THEN YOUR PEDESTRIAN, UM, CROSSINGS WOULD BE AT THESE CORNERS HERE.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED AND WHERE WE'VE COME TO? MR. DORIAN? THANK YOU.
UM, HOW DOES, WHAT, WHAT HEIGHT DOES THAT, UM, CREATE ON THE BUILDING? A FULL HEIGHT WITH THE PARAPET? WITH THE PARAPET, WE'RE ROUGHLY AROUND 60 TO 65 FEET.
AND THAT WILL CAN BE ADJUSTED DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE EQUIPMENT UP AT THE ROOF.
UM, AND WE MAY HAVE TO GO UP A LITTLE BIT ON THE FIRST FLOOR.
I THINK RIGHT NOW WE'RE PROPOSING POSSIBLY 20 FEET FOR A HIGHER CEILING, BUT THAT MAY GO UP TO 25 DEPENDING ON THE EVENTS THAT WE WANT TO HOLD IN THOSE MEETING ROOMS OR IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
I ACTUALLY LIKE THE HIGHER CEILING HEIGHT, BUT NOT TO GET INTO THE DESIGN TONIGHT.
DOES THAT EXISTING AND THAT SLIDE UP, UP THERE TO THE RIGHT.
'CAUSE THERE'S EXISTING PARKING, WELL ACTUALLY I GUESS THE EXISTING PARKING'S ON THE CITY WHERE THE CITY HALL IS NOW.
THAT CORNER UP THERE, THERE'S NO, IS ALREADY GREEN SPACE.
SO WE REALLY WOULDN'T BE DEMOING ANY EXISTING CONCRETE ON BOTH LOCATIONS, CORRECT? NO, NO.
WE WOULDN'T BE DEMOING AT ALL.
THOSE ARE JUST THE TWO AREAS THAT WE ELIMINATED FROM WHAT WE ORIGINALLY PROPOSED.
I, I, I PERSONALLY LIKE THE, THE GREEN SPACE AND UM, ON THE ENTRANCE ON ARA ARAPAHO, BY ELIMINATING THAT, THAT ALLOWS US TO JUST HAVE THE ENTRANCE ON THE CIVIC SIDE AND ALSO BELL GROVE.
THERE IS NO ENTRANCE ON THE FEEDER ROAD.
OF COURSE THAT GIVES US WHAT, 1, 2, 3 ENTRANCES AND TWO, THE, THE COMPOUND.
UM, SO ON THIS ONE WE HAVE, UM, TWO OPTION B.
AND, UH, POTENTIALLY WE COULD, UM, ADD ANOTHER HERE.
UM, WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE POSSIBILITY IF WE, UM, DOING THIS IN THE FUTURE, IF THAT'S, UM, DESIRED.
UM, AND THEN WE, UM, WE MAY BE WORKING OUT WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WHETHER WE NEED ONE HERE OR, UM, IF THIS IS ENOUGH TO GET THE FIRE TRUCKS MM-HMM.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LOGISTICALLY WE CAN, UM, LOOK THROUGH.
YEAH, I WAS JUST, I'M JUST, UH, A QUESTION ON ARE THERE ENOUGH ENTRANCE? I MEAN MM-HMM.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A SECOND ONE YES.
ON BELL GROVE CURRENTLY THERE'S ONE RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO ONE ON THE BELL GROVE SIDE.
THAT ONE, AND THE ONE THAT WE'RE CALLING FUTURE NOW.
SO THAT GIVES US, SO THE, THE THREE ENTRANCES WILL BE ENOUGH, OR TWO, I'M SORRY, THE TWO ENTRANCES WILL BE ENOUGH.
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD, UM, RUN BY WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL IF THIS IS ACCEPTABLE FOR THE FIRETRUCK.
BUT, UM, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING RIGHT NOW.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE ARE PROPOSING THIS IS, UM, TO HELP IDENTIFY CLEARLY WHAT ARE THE ENTRANCES AND EXITS, UM, INTO THE CAMPUS.
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RIGHT NOW THERE'S SO MANY, THERE'S NOT A CLEAR MAIN ENTRANCE INTO CAMPUS.SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO ZONE IN ON.
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION ON THAT'S A DETAIL THAT COULD BE INTEGRATED INTO THE NEXT STAGE.
IT'S MORE OR LESS DO WE LIKE A OR B.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, MS. JUSTICE? UH, NOT A QUESTION, BUT I MEAN, I'M, I'M ONE OF THE ONES THAT WAS STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THE DRIVE DOWN THE MIDDLE AND, AND I, I THINK I STILL LEAN THAT DIRECTION, PARTICULARLY IF WE ARE, WE'RE NOT DONE FIGURING OUT WHAT THE ENTRANCES ARE, IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO MAYBE COME OFF OF 75.
UM, I, I THINK EVEN WITH THE MITIGATION THAT YOU HAVE THERE, UM, JUST THE VEHICLE TRAFFIC DOWN THE MIDDLE, UM, I APPRECIATE THE SURVEY RESULTS SAYING WE WANT AN ENTRANCE FROM ARAPAHOE, BUT I THINK IT'S IN DIRECT CONFLICT TO THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT, THAT WE WANT THIS WONDERFUL PLAZA THAT, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE FOUNTAIN AND THE INTERPLAY OF THE TWO BUILDINGS.
AND SO, UH, I LEAN TOWARDS THE NEWER OPTION THAT DOESN'T HAVE, UH, THE DRIVE DOWN THE MIDDLE.
UM, EVEN WITH THOSE MITIGATION FACTORS, PARTICULARLY IF WE'RE ABLE TO GET AN ENTRANCE FROM 75, I THINK THAT GIVES US THREE ENTRANCE POINTS.
UM, AND I THINK BETTER BALANCE IS THE DESIRE OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, TO HAVE A PLAZA, UM, A TRUE SORT OF CIVIC PLAZA.
SO I, I PREFER THE OPTION WITHOUT THE DRIVE.
YEAH, I WAS, ALONG WITH COUNCILWOMAN JUSTICE, I WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WAS NOT, UH, A BIG FAN OF THE ROAD.
I THINK THAT, UM, WHAT THE IDEAS YOU HAVE HELP HAVE HELPED EASE SOME OF THAT.
UM, TODAY I DID HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE COMMUNITY REACH OUT AND POINT OUT SOMETHING I HADN'T THOUGHT OF, WHICH WAS MUCH MORE OF THAT KIND OF PUBLIC SPACE.
AS JENNIFER MENTIONED, COUNCILMAN JUSTICE MENTIONED, UM, HAVING A KIND OF CENTER PLAZA AREA, I'M, I'M KIND OF TORN IN ALL HONESTY.
I, I'M NOT FOR SURE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
I DO FEEL SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN I DID, BUT I'M NOT QUITE THERE YET ON SCENE.
CAN DON, CAN YOU MAYBE HELP REFRESH YOUR MEMORY ON WHY WE WERE LEANING TOWARDS THAT? I THINK IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH CIVIC CENTER DRIVE AND PEOPLE TRYING TO HEAD OUT OF THERE AT FIVE O'CLOCK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WELL, IT WAS, IT WAS LARGELY TO TRY TO ENGAGE ARAPAHO AND HAVE A, A MAIN ENTRANCE INTO THE CAMPUS.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THERE, I MEAN THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE RESPONDENTS SAID THAT WE NEED TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S AN INTERESTING, UM, THERE'S AN INTERESTING APPROACH WE COULD TAKE HERE, WHICH WOULD BE, UM, AND WE, WE, WE DO, I CAN THINK OF OTHER EXAMPLES WHERE WE'VE DONE THIS.
I MEAN, IF WE WANTED THIS TO BE A PEDESTRIAN PLAZA, UM, IT DOESN'T MEAN WE COULDN'T CONSTRUCT IT TO BE A ROAD EVENTUALLY, IF THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED.
I MEAN, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, UH, COUNCILMAN HUTCHER ROGER, TO YOUR POINT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET ONE SHOT AT THIS.
UM, IF, IF IF THERE'S ANXIETY ABOUT IT BEING USED AS A STREET, UM, THEN, THEN WE COULD, WE COULD SIMPLY, UM, BUILD IT TO A STANDARD OF A, OF A, OF A ROAD AS OUTLINED.
WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY DO WHAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA DO.
'CAUSE THERE'S NO NEED TO PUT A PILLOW TOP, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA USE IT AS A ROAD.
BUT I MEAN, IT, THERE, IT THAT WOULD PROVIDE THE LATITUDE IN THE FUTURE, UM, TO BE ABLE TO, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE, MAKE A CHANGE TO IT WITHOUT HAVING TO INVEST SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE FUTURE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IT MIGHT BE AS A PEDESTRIAN PLAZA AND, AND AS A ROAD, IT JUST GIVES, IT WOULD GIVE YOU THE GREATEST FLEXIBILITY.
UM, I DO BELIEVE WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE AS WE REDEVELOP TO BE FACED WITH THESE CHOICES, THOUGH.
I MEAN, IT'S, AS I SAID LAST TIME, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IF, IF WE'RE GOING TO EMBRACE URBANISM AND WE WE'RE GOING TO DO THINGS, I MEAN, I THINK OF MCKINNEY STREET IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND WHAT WE DID THERE, THAT'S 40,000 CARS A DAY AND WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE PEOPLE TO THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH OF THE BELT LINE.
SO IF, IF WE WANTED TO GO AT A PEDESTRIAN MALL APPROACH INITIALLY, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE AT LEAST WORTH CONSIDERING.
OR IF WE WANTED TO GO FOR A PEDESTRIAN MALL AND WE NEVER CHANGED OUR MIND, IT WOULDN'T BE THAT MUCH MORE OF AN EXPENSE TO, TO BUILD IT TO WHERE IF WE EVER DECIDED TO TRY TO USE IT AS A ROAD, WE COULD DO THAT.
AND THAT MIGHT BE A COMPROMISE THAT IT, IT PROVIDES MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY MOVING FORWARD.
BUT WE, WE CAN, UM, WE CAN BEGIN WITH THE PEDESTRIAN MALL APPROACH IF OKAY, THANK YOU.
UM, SO ONE OF THE RESIDENTS WHO REACHED OUT TO ME THIS AFTERNOON, HIS COMMENTS WERE SOMEBODY WHO'S VERY ACTIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND ALL OF US PROBABLY KNOW HIM IN THE ROOM.
UM, THE, THE THOUGHT ABOUT, AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE POINTED OUT WAS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW, UM, WE HAVE IN THE PAST HE'S AT FOUNTAIN AREA WHEN, UH, WHEN GEORGE FLOYD WAS KILLED, AND I KNOW THERE WAS
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A, THERE WAS A GROUP THERE, MAYOR PAUL HAD SPOKEN TO WHEN THEY DID LIKE A DEMONSTRATION, I THINK WHEN OFFICER ARD WAS, UM, KILLED.THERE WAS A MEMORIAL THERE AS WELL AND, AND A FEW OTHER THINGS OVER THE YEAR.
SO THE THOUGHT WAS, WELL, CAN WE MAKE IT A PARK? 'CAUSE MAKING THAT AREA AS A DESIGNATED PARK KIND OF ALLOWS US TO DO DIFFERENTLY.
SO I GUESS THE, MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE A WAY TO OVERLAY THE TWO SO THAT WE DO HAVE THAT? BECAUSE I, I REALLY LIKE THAT PILLOW TOP.
I I THINK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE HAD CHATTED ABOUT THAT AND I, I REALLY LIKE WHAT, UH, THOSE IDEAS THAT, THAT THEY BROUGHT TO US.
SO I THINK THAT THE SUGGESTIONS TAKE CARE OF A LOT OF MY CONCERNS.
UM, BUT IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE DESIGNATING THIS AS A PARK SO THAT IN THE FUTURE IT'D BE A PLACE THAT PEOPLE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO GATHER TO, UH, WHETHER IN AS A MEMORIAL OR FOR WHATEVER OTHER REASON, A PUBLIC PLACE FOR THEM TO GATHER, THEY WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO GATHER AND THAT WE WERE, ARE ABLE TO SHUT IT DOWN IN THOSE MOMENTS AND THAT THEY HAVE A NATURAL RIGHT TO DO THAT.
SO IS THERE A WAY TO OVERLAP THAT WITH A PARK OR ARE WE SAYING NO, WE CAN, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DESIGNATED PARKLAND TO DO THAT.
THEY HAVE ANYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO GATHER ON, ON THIS PUBLIC PROPERTY TODAY AND WITH OR WITHOUT THE ROAD, THEY WOULD HAVE THE, THE RIGHT TO GATHER AND IF, IF WITH THE REMOVABLE BOLLARDS, WE COULD COMPLETELY CREATE A, A SECURE AREA FOR ANY OF THOSE.
UM, ANY OF THOSE EVENTS, YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST GIVE YOU, AGAIN, JUST TRYING TO HELP WITH CONTEXT HERE.
I MEAN, COTTONWOOD PARK HAS A DRIVE THAT'S PROBABLY 10 TIMES AS LONG AS THIS THAT GOES THROUGH THE PARK.
AND SO, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, FOR CONTEXT.
UM, SO AGAIN THOUGH, I THINK IF, IF THE, IF THE, IF THE LEVEL OF COMFORT IS NOT THERE TO MAKE IT A DRIVE TODAY, THERE WE CAN CONSTRUCT IT AS SUCH.
IF, IF THAT'S, IF YOU WANT THE FLEXIBILITY IN THE FUTURE TO FURTHER TO CONSIDER IT.
AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T, WE CAN, WE CAN CONSTRUCT IT AS A PEDESTRIAN MALL AND, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT AS WELL.
BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO SAY, IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S, IF THE IMMEDIATE DECISION IS YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE AS A COUNCIL, YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO GET THERE, WE COULD CONSTRUCT IT AND WE COULD CONSIDER, WE CAN CONSIDER THIS AT A DIFFERENT TIME WHEN, I MEAN MAYBE YOU, MAYBE WE OPERATED AS A PEDESTRIAN MALL FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND THEN WE MAYBE RECONSIDER IT OR AGAIN, MAYBE WE NEVER CONSIDER IT AGAIN.
CON YOU ONLY GET ONE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSTRUCT IT IS MY POINT.
AND, AND WE COULD, WE COULD, WE COULD CONSTRUCT IT TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY IN THE FUTURE.
I JUST TO REITERATE, I DON'T STAND STRONG EITHER WAY AT THIS POINT.
'CAUSE I DO LIKE WHAT STAFF BROUGHT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE BETTER.
THERE'S STILL A LITTLE BIT OF RESERVATION.
I'D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT THE COUNCIL THANK YOU MR. CHU.
EVEN YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLE OPTIONS, DIFFERENT WAY TO LOOK AT THINGS.
UH, UH, NOW THERE IS ONE THING, LIKE, YOU KNOW, HAVING A DESIGNATED PARK, PEOPLE SOMETIMES DON'T REALIZE THAT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT AS AN ENGINEER, YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU DESIGNATE SOME AREA AS A PARK, IF YOU WANT TO DO ANYTHING, LIKE YOU NEED TO PUT UNDERGROUND UTILITIES SOMEWHERE, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PARK CONVERSION.
AND THAT'S A HUGE LONG PROCESS.
SO IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE CREATING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, YOUR OWN PROBLEM FOR THE FUTURE.
SO, UH, BUT UH, ON THIS ONE, UH, WHAT IF THE OPTION WAS THAT THOSE BALLARD STAYS UP ALL THE TIME? IT'S ONLY SOMETIMES WHEN THE TRAFFIC NEED TO BE MOVED AROUND, YOU CAN OPEN THAT FOR TRAFFIC ONLY FOR THOSE SITUATION.
OTHERWISE, LIKE AT AND T UH, LIKE THE DOWNTOWN DALLAS, THEY HAVE AT T CENTER THAT YOU DO THAT THEY HAVE A BALLARD AND ALL THOSE, THOSE STAYS UP ALL THE TIME AND PEOPLE MOVE AROUND, YOU KNOW, SPEND THE TIME ALL DAY LONG THERE.
BUT I GUESS FOR DELIVERY AND OTHER EMERGENCY PURPOSE, THOSE GOES DOWN AND THEY CAN USE THAT FOR OTHERS, BUT MOSTLY IT STAYS UP.
SO THAT OPTION, I KIND OF LIKE THAT KIND OF OPTION.
UH, AND UH, BUT THAT ALSO GIVES US ACCESS FROM THE, YOU KNOW, AT, AT LEAST FROM THE PUBLIC VIEWPOINT THAT WE HAVE ACCESS FROM THE
AND IF THERE'S A GATHERING ON THE, ON THE PLAZA THERE, THEN PEOPLE CAN STILL WALK OUT FROM THE REP OUTSIDE, WALK AROUND AND GO ALL THE WAY, NOT FEELING THAT THEY HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE PARKING AND THEN NOT WALK AROUND.
SO HAVING A OPENING IN THAT SIDE, AT LEAST FOR THE PEDESTRIAN IS VERY IMPORTANT.
SO CLOSING OFF TOTALLY FOR ANY PURPOSE IS NOT PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR THE CITY LONG TERM.
UM, JUST WANTED TO CIRCLE BACK AND JUST REITERATE AND, UH, GIVE YOU, UH, MY OPINION.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, I DO LIKE, UH, THE IDEA
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OF CREATING HIGHER CEILINGS, THEREFORE CREATING A HIGHER BUILDING ELEVATION, USUALLY UTILIZING THE PARA PIT.I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE MORE, I DON'T KNOW, SUBSTANTIAL AND DRAMATIC.
AND WE, THAT TO EVERYONE'S POINT, YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE TO BUILD IT.
SO IT'S, IT IS, YOU KNOW, ADDING SOME HEIGHT'S REALLY NICE.
UM, ALSO, I PERSONALLY LIKE HAVING THE ADDITIONAL GREEN SPACE.
UM, I HAVE TO AGREE THAT IN THE FUTURE, IF ANYONE OR WE DECIDED THAT WE NEEDED TO ADD ANY PEDESTRIAN OR DRIVE, UH, PASSAGEWAYS, WE COULD EASILY DO THAT.
BUT I DO LIKE HAVING THE GREEN SPACE UP IN THE CORNERS AND, UH, CREATING A COMMON AREA, UH, PARK-LIKE, UH, COMMON AREA.
SO I, I MEAN, I'M MORE LEANING TOWARD A TWO.
MR. CORCO, UH, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.
UM, YEAH, I'LL JUST START BY SAYING THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING BACK WITH A PLAN THAT, UH, PRESERVES SOME OF THE GREEN SPACE FOR NOW AND REDUCES THE PARKING.
I APPRECIATE YOU LISTENING TO MY COMMENTS THERE.
UH, I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR PROVIDING THESE, THESE PICTURES OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, UH, CAMPUS EXAMPLES.
UM, THAT'S REALLY HELPED ME THE PAST COUPLE MINUTES TRY TO ENVISION WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF THERE WAS, UH, IF THERE WAS A DRIVEWAY THROUGH THAT, THROUGH THAT, UH, MIDDLE PLAZA THERE.
AND DON, I THINK WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT MAYBE DESIGNING IT SO THAT THERE IS POTENTIAL TO OPEN IT UP IF ONE DAY WE NEED IT.
UM, I THINK THAT SOUNDS PERTINENT AND I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THAT, UH, IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
I MEAN, LOOKING AT, HAVING BEEN TO A LOT OF THESE PLACES THAT ARE ON THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CAMPUS, UM, EXAMPLES.
I MEAN, I, PEOPLE WALK THROUGH THOSE ROADS ALL THE TIME, NO PROBLEM.
AND IF, IF THEY WERE CLOSED OFF, YOU WOULD JUST THINK THAT IT'S PART OF THE, THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND SO THE OTHER MESSAGE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE KIND OF REITERATED IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S AN INEVITABILITY THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE CONSTRUCTION ON THIS CAMPUS, WHETHER IT'S AN EXPANSION KIND OF DOWN IN THAT BOTTOM LEFT CORNER, OR WHETHER IT'S ACROSS ARAPAHOE.
I MEAN, MAYBE ONLY GET ONE CHANCE TO DESIGN IT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE WON'T BE, UM, A TIME TO RE A PERTINENT TIME TO REVISIT IT IN THE FUTURE, RIGHT? SO MM-HMM.
SO, I MEAN, I LIKE A TWO, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE IT OPENED UP OFF THE BAT, BUT IF THERE'S KIND OF A REALLY NICE WAY TO DESIGN IT, WHERE IN THE FUTURE IF, YOU KNOW, IF IF IT REALLY WARRANTS IT, WE CAN DO IT.
THANK YOU, MR. HUTCHEN RUDDER.
UM, DON, I'M, I THINK I NEED TO DIRECT THIS TO YOU.
DO WE, MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE DON'T HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD HAVE AN ACCESS OFF OF US 75.
IS THAT NOT CONTROLLED BY TXDOT? WOULD WE NOT HAVE TO HAVE A, WOULD WE NOT HAVE TO DO A STUDY IN BECAUSE OF NUMBER OF ENTRANCES AND EXITS OFF OF 75, ET CETERA, ET CETERA? SO WE, WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THAT.
SO WE CAN'T SAY TONIGHT THAT WE COULD, IN FACT, WE'D BE AT SOMEWHAT OF THE MERCY OF TDOT.
IS THAT, IS THAT TRUE? WE WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO COORDINATE WITH THEM AND, AND, UM, AND RECEIVE THEIR PERMISSION.
UM, I'LL BRING MY QUESTION BACK HERE.
I GUESS MY, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, IS WHAT'S Y'ALL'S RECOMMENDATION? I'D, I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT Y'ALL'S RECOMMENDATION IS.
'CAUSE Y'ALL ARE THE PROFESSIONALS.
YOU'RE ONE, YOU'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN, HAVE BEEN LABORING OVER THIS A LOT MORE THAN ANY OF US
MY SECOND QUESTION IS, YOU SAID YOU'VE NOT RUN THIS PAST THE FIRE MARSHAL YET? NO, WE HAVE, WE HAVE HAD, UM, SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL ON, UM, THE FIRE LANE ON THE EAST SIDE.
UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, HAVING THE MAIN DRIVE AND THE DISTANCES TO THE BUILDING.
UM, THERE, HE, THE A BIG, YOU KNOW, HAVING, SORRY, HAVING THIS DRIVE IS CRITICAL FOR THEM TO HAVE ACCESS TO THESE BUILDINGS.
UM, WE'VE DETERMINED RECENTLY HAVING ACCESS TO THE FIRE RISER HERE.
SO I THINK THE QUESTION IS, UM, THAT WE'LL BE POSING TO THEM IS JUST MAKING SURE THEY HAVE THE CORRECT ACCESS INTO THIS PARKING LOT TO REACH THE LIBRARY.
FIRE, UH, FIRE RISER ROOM FROM THAT LOCATION IS, UM, PRETTY MUCH THE OPEN QUESTION THAT WE NEED TO WRAP UP.
UM, THE, UM, BUT, UM, YES, WE DISCUSSED THIS, UM, FIRE HAVING ACCESS ON THIS SIDE OF THE BUILDING WITH THEM, AND THEY SEEMED GOOD WITH THAT AS WELL.
SO, IS THAT, THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING, THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SEE.
YEAH, SO THIS IS, UM, A DEAD END FIRE LANE
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THAT, UM, SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE ACCESS, UM, TO THIS SIDE OF THE BUILDING OVER HERE.UM, THEY CAN ACCESS IT FROM ARAPAHOE, BUT THEY REALLY WOULD PREFER HAVING MORE DIRECT ACCESS AROUND THE BUILDING THAN OFF OF ARAPAHOE BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC.
I GUESS, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, I'M KIND OF, I'M KIND OF RIGHT IN THE NEUTRAL CATEGORY, I WOULD SAY BETWEEN A ONE AND A TWO.
I, I, THE ONE THING I DO CON THAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT IS I DON'T THINK TWO ENTRANCES, TWO ENTRANCES AND TWO EXITS ARE ENOUGH.
UM, I, I, THAT, THAT HAS ME A LITTLE CONCERNED.
SO IT, I JUST THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE TIGHT WHERE, WHERE THE THIRD ONE SHOULD GO AGAIN.
I DON'T KNOW HOW EASY IT'LL BE TO WORK WITH TDOT TO GET THAT ONE OFF OF, OFF OF 75 POTENTIALLY, OR THE IN, I GUESS IT WOULD ONLY BE AN ENTRANCE AT TECHNIC.
WELL, IT COULD BE AN EXIT, I GUESS.
'CAUSE YOU COULD GO, YEAH, YOU COULD GO SOUTH, YOU COULD ENTER AN EXIT.
SO YOU KNOW THAT THAT WOULD BE THE ONE QUE THAT, THAT'S THE ONE THING THAT I, THAT TO ME, OUT OF ANYTHING THAT I SEE UP HERE IS PROBABLY MOST CONCERNING IS THAT YOU'RE ONLY SHOWING TWO, TWO ENTRANCE EXITS.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT, UM, IF WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF AN EVENT THERE, WHETHER IT BE JUST EVEN AS SIMPLE AS IF WE, YOU KNOW, HAD SOME TYPE OF FESTIVAL HERE.
I SAY FESTIVAL, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S THE RIGHT WORD, BUT BEAR WITH ME.
I, I THINK TWO ENTRANCE EXIT MIGHT BE A LITTLE TIGHT FOR, FOR PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT.
SO, DON, DO YOU, I KNOW YOU CAN'T SAY TONIGHT, BUT I MEAN, CHANCES OF GETTING AN ENTRANCE EXIT OFF OF 75, IS THAT, IS IT 50 50, 25, 75? ANY FEEL FOR THAT? WELL, I, I, I'LL TELL YOU, I, IN MY OPINION, THAT WOULD PROBABLY THE, THE LEAST, UM, DESIRABLE OPTION.
UM, IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT WILL LIKELY HAPPEN, UM, IT'S, RIGHT NOW IT'S GONNA BE WHETHER YOU HAVE THE, THE DRIVE OFF OF ARAPAHOE OR NOT, IT'S NOT A REALLY EASY CUT THROUGH.
UM, IF YOU CREATE, IF THERE'S A BIG BACKUP AT ARAPAHOE OR EVEN PEOPLE JUST KIND OF GET ACCUSTOMED TO IT TO COME DOWN, UM, CIVIC CENTER AND JUST GO STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CAMPUS TO GET TO 75, I DON'T THINK, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE NO, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
DON'S POINT THAT, THAT WOULD BE MY, I THINK THAT CURTIS'S POINT OF POTENTIALLY OPENING OR LEAVING OPEN, UH, THANK YOU.
UM, THE SECOND EXIT ONTO, UH, BELL GROVE IS A, IS A BETTER OPTION.
UM, I, I, I, I, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SAY, WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE DR, WHAT IF WE HAVE THE DRIVE? RIGHT? WELL, IT'S, IT COULD BE A CUT THROUGH, BUT IT'S A CUT THROUGH WITH A STOP AND A TURN AND THEN ANOTHER TURN.
I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT.
IF YOU OPEN UP 75, I MEAN, YOU'RE, YOU'RE CREATING GOOD POINT.
A PRETTY DIRECT PATHWAY, UM, THROUGH THE CAMPUS FOR FOLKS THAT WANNA AVOID ARAPAHO.
UM, AND THEN, THEN JUST LASTLY, THE, THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE, AND WE DIDN'T DISCUSS THIS LAST TIME, DO YOU HAVE ANY, I AGREE WITH THE, THE GREEN SPACE COMMENTS, BUT ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE ANY KIND OF, UM, ACCESS CONTROL PARKING AT ALL? LIKE WE HAVE AT THE FIRE AND POLICE STATION? I MEAN, I REALIZE CITY HALL'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT WE DID, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN WE ORIGINALLY STARTED ABOUT, STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE DESIGN, UM, OF CITY HALL SECURITY, AND IT WAS, WAS A CONSIDERATION, SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, 'CAUSE THAT THERE, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE TODAY THERE'S ANY KIND OF OF, I'LL USE THE WORD SECLUDED MAYBE IS THE RIGHT WORD TO USE PARKING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT FOR STAFF.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME, THIS WOULD JUST BE OPEN PARKING.
I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT LAST TIME, BUT AS WE STARTED TALKING, SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING THAT TRIGGERED MY BRAIN.
IT'S, AND ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? UM, THE, I IDEALLY IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO, TO DO IT, BUT THE, THE SITE JUST DOESN'T LEND ITSELF TO, BECAUSE I MEAN, WE, YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, 200 IF NOT 250 ACCESS CONTROLLED, UH, SPACES.
AND WE'RE USING THOSE SPACES FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES.
AND SO IT DOESN'T REALLY LEND ITSELF.
I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE SENSITIVE TO THAT.
SORRY, THE ONLY OTHER POINT, UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE TOO IS THAT, EXCUSE ME.
I MEAN, I KNOW BASED ON THIS IMAGE, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S JUST TWO ENTRANCES AND EXITS, BUT THERE IS SORT OF A THIRD EXIT THAT EMPTIES ONTO CUSTER FROM BELL GROVE AS WELL.
UM, IF YOU JUST KEEP GOING, UH, IF YOU JUST KEEP TAKING WHERE SO PAST THE, UH, BELL GROVE APARTMENTS THERE, YOU JUST KEEP, SO, I DON'T KNOW, JUST YMCA, I WAS JUST SAYING YOU CAN GET TO CUSTOMER.
I'M JUST SAYING YOU CAN GET TO CU IT'S NOT AS IF, IT'S NOT AS IF THE ONLY THINGS YOU CAN DO.
WHAT I WAS GOING TO NOT, NOT SPECIFICALLY YOU YOUR POINT.
NO, I WAS JUST SAYING COMING OUT OF THE PARKING LOT RIGHT NOW, WE'RE ONLY SHOWING TWO.
NOT, NOT TO GET TO ARAPAHO OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING IS COMING OUT OF, IF, IF, IF MY, MY POINT WAS IF, AND
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CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE ONLY SHOWING OUT OF THE OVERALL, I'M GONNA USE THE WORD COMPLEX FOR A MOMENT.THERE'S ONLY, THERE'S ON OPTION ON A TWO, RIGHT? ONE HERE.
THERE'S ONLY TWO RIGHT NOW AND ONE HERE.
THAT, THAT WAS MY POINT, BILL.
THAT, THAT'S ALL I WAS SAYING.
I WASN'T ARGUING WITH YOU, I WAS JUST MAKING SURE MY POINT WAS CLEAR.
CLEAR AS GLE REACHED THROUGH THE FIRE MARSHAL ONCE SHE SHARED ONCE YOU THEM, YEAH.
I GUESS THE POINT I WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT THERE'S, THERE'S THAT SORT OF, IF WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT JUST PRESSURE ON THOSE TWO EXITS, THERE'S SORT OF A THIRD EXIT OFF THE CAMPUS THAT CAN HELP RELIEVE THAT PRESSURE.
IT'S THE ONLY POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE.
I, I WAS JUST CONSULTING WITH CHARLES AND I THINK, UH, I, I'LL I CAN TELL YOU THE EXPRESSION ON JIM'S FACE IN A SECOND IF THIS WAS DOABLE OR NOT.
BUT, UH, WHAT I, WHAT I'D LIKE TO JUST OFFER UP AS WELL IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DESIGN THIS AS A PEDESTRIAN MALL AND WE CAN BID, UM, THE, THE THICKER, UM, THE, THE, THE THICKER CONCRETE FOR A ROAD WE CAN, THE CURBS, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS IS AN ALTERNATE.
AND THEN WE CAN SEE WHAT THE, WHAT THE COST IS TO DO THAT.
AND SO YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION TONIGHT.
THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO EXPLORE.
DO YOU YOU SEE ANY ISSUES WITH THAT APPROACH? I DO NOT.
I JUST OFFERED THAT UP AS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE.
I KNOW THERE WAS SOME TALK, OR ONE OF THE OPTIONS, I THINK, UM, THAT WAS MENTIONED.
THIS FIRE LANE ON THE EAST SIDE OF CITY HALL MM-HMM.
HOW MUCH MORE DIFFICULT WOULD IT BE TO EXTEND THAT TO ARAPAHOE AND MAKE THAT A RIGHT TURN? OH, THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE NEARNESS.
THAT'S WHY WE SAID I REMEMBER NOW.
IT WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE INTERSECTION.
SO THAT'S WHY THAT WASN'T MM-HMM.
YEAH, I'M, I APPRECIATE ALL THE POINTS AND THE CREATIVITY AND I, I MEAN, THE, THE ALTERNATE BIDDING I'M FINE WITH, BUT I MEAN, I THINK THE ULTIMATE BUILDING A ROAD, I MEAN, PART OF THE ISSUE WE DISCUSSED LAST TIME TOO WAS THE IMPACT OF TREES.
IF WE PUT A, A ROAD THROUGH THE PLAZA.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTING THAT, THAT DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF THAT, THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE.
'CAUSE THERE WOULD STILL BE MORE IMPACT ON TREES.
I KNOW IT'S WOULD BE MINIMAL, PARTICULARLY CONSIDERING WE'RE TAKING AWAY THE PARKING.
BUT THERE'S, UM, BETWEEN THE TWO, THERE'S MINIMAL, UM, IMPACT ON BETWEEN THE TWO WITH ADDING THE ROAD BECAUSE OF HOW THE LEADERSHIP GROWS, STARTS HERE, GOING BACK THIS WAY.
UM, THERE IS SOME, BUT YEAH, MINIMAL.
YEAH, I MEAN, I RECALL LAST TIME THAT IT WAS, WHEN YOU HAD IT ALL MARKED OUT, IT WAS A DECENT AMOUNT.
UM, AND THAT WAS PART OF THE CONCERN APART FROM THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
SO I'M FINE IF YOU WANNA BID IT AS AN ALTERNATE JUST TO, SO WE HAVE THE OPTION, YOU KNOW, IF I'M IN THE MINORITY, I'M ON THE ISSUE.
UM, BUT, BUT I STILL, I WOULD PREFER NOT TO BUILD A ROAD DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLAZA AND, AND PACK MORE TREES THAN WE NEED TO.
SO I, I'M STILL FIRMLY IN THE CAMP OF A TWO, UM, AT THIS POINT.
AND, UH, MAYOR, I COUNSEL, I, WE, WE ARE ABLE TO SERVE YOU IF A TWO IS IT, WE ARE FINE WITH IT.
WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU BOTH OPTIONS TO, TO THOROUGHLY CONSIDER.
I MEAN, I MEAN, YEAH, I MEAN, I'M SENSITIVE TO THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WANT AN ENTRANCE OFF ARAPAHO, BUT I, I GUESS I SAID IN MY OPENING COMMENTS, I THINK THAT'S IN CONFLICT WITH THEM WANTING THIS, THIS PLAZA.
AND SO LIKE, YOU KNOW, I, I GUESS I'M IN THE CAMP OF LET'S HAVE THIS TRUE PLAZA, UM, MUNICIPAL PLAZA.
AND I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT URBANISM, BUT I THINK YOU KIND OF GET BOTH HERE.
I MEAN, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF CONCRETE THERE, AND IT IS STILL CAR FOCUSED IN A TWO.
UM, AND THIS AT LEAST GIVES US THIS REALLY GREAT SORT OF PEDESTRIAN PLAZA PARK-LIKE, UH, ENVIRONMENT.
IF YOU WANT A BIKE OR YOU WANNA DRIVE YOUR CAR OR YOU WANNA WALK, UM, YOU HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO, TO HANG OUT ON OUR CAMPUS.
MR. BARRIOS, I'M GONNA, I'M, I'M GONNA AGREE WITH COUNSEL ON THE JUSTICE ON THIS AS WELL FOR A TWO.
UM, I'M OPEN TO BEING BID OUT.
I'LL BE HONEST, I COULDN'T PICTURE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO I'M SURE THE BIDDING PROCESS, SOME IDEAS WILL BE PUT TOGETHER, WHAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
AND I'M OPEN TO CONSIDERING THAT AS I'M OPEN TO CONSIDERING ANYTHING.
BUT I, I'M LEANING TOWARDS A TWO AS WELL, MR. CORHORT.
UH, I JUST WANNA THIRD THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER JUSTICE, COUNCIL MEMBER BARRIOS.
UH, I THINK A TWO IS THE WAY TO GO.
AND I THINK FOR, FOR CLARITY, I, I'M IN PREFERENCE OF MAKING IT A, A MORE FIRM DECISION, A FIRM DECISION TO GO WITH A TWO, JUST SO WE HAVE CLARITY MOVING FORWARD.
ANY MORE COMMENTS? SO, UH, JUST AGAIN, FOR, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE OUR DIR UH, MARCHING ORDERS, CLEAR, UH, A TWO, NOT, NO NEED TO, UH, BID BID THE ALTERNATE.
I, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE OPTION FOR A ONE, LIKE, AT LEAST NEED TO HAVE A PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FROM THE ARAPAHO.
AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T, UH, YOU KNOW, I AGREE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVING A ACCESS FOR THE AUTOMOBILE FROM
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ARAPAHO IS ONE THING, BUT VERSUS HAVING INVITING PEOPLE FROM THE ARAPAHO IS ANOTHER THING.I THINK I, I, I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE ACCESS FOR THE, AT LEAST PEDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN FROM THAT SITE.
SO WE, WE SHOULD HAVE AN ALTERNATE AT LEAST FOR THAT OR AT THAT, AT THAT PIECE.
UM, NOT REALLY, NOT NECESSARILY HAVING LIKE FULL DRIVABLE OPTION.
UH, EVEN IF WE PUT SOMETHING, WE CAN PUT THE BALLER THAT'S AUTOMATIC, THAT STAYS UP ALL THE TIME ON THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE THAT CAN, SO JUST, JUST SO I, I, LET ME JUST MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND.
SO IN OPTION A TWO, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SUGGESTING PERHAPS FROM THE SIDEWALK THAT RUNS PARALLEL TO ARAPAHO, MAYBE A TRAIL, A TRAIL LIKE CONNECTION FROM THAT SIDEWALK TO THE PLAZA? UH, MORE THAN, MORE THAN JUST A TRAILS NEED TO BE ENOUGH SO THAT WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, GROUP OF PEOPLE CAN, THEY CAN WALK TOGETHER, UH, NOT JUST TWO, THREE PEOPLE WALKING RIGHT.
COMING LIKE DOWN WHERE THE MAIN DRIVE IS.
IS THAT WHAT YEAH, I MEAN, I, SO THAT'S GONNA HAVE THE SAME IMPACT ON THE TREES THAT A ROAD WOULD, BUT I THINK IT'S, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE ACCESS FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET IN, UH, AND HAVING FEELINGS THAT IT'S ON THE REP OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.
I THINK MOST OF THE PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE THAT BUILDING, YOU KNOW, FROM THE REP OUTSIDE.
IF WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS FROM THAT, UM, NOT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CAR, IT COULD BE LIKE PEOPLE MM-HMM.
AND, UH, AND WHEN YOU WANT TO HAVE LIKE, LOTS OF GATHERING, LOTS OF PEOPLE WOULD BE WALKING AND IF THEY WALK FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY WILL JUST GO AND TAKE THAT AS A MAIN ENTRANCE AND GO OUT.
UH, SO IF THEY PREFER TO WALK FROM THIS SIDE TO OTHER SIDE OF THE 75.
AND COULD YOU, COULD YOU SHOW, UH, COUN, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, THE TWO SIDEWALK CONNECTIONS THAT ARE, IF I'M READING THIS RIGHT, JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE LIBRARY IN 18? YEAH.
THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S A PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION.
THOSE ARE PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS FROM THE ARAPAHO ESSENTIALLY TO THE, IS THAT TRUE? YEAH.
CAN YOU MAKE THAT WIDER SO THAT IT'S LIKE MORE PROMINENT WALKING? IT'S NOT JUST A TRAIL, IT'S MORE SCALE TO THE, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN EXPLORE AND JUST SEE HOW IT IMPACTS ON THE TREES.
'CAUSE I KNOW THAT'S A MAIN CONCERN.
SO WE'LL DEFINITELY LOOK AT, AT THAT.
YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE A TRAIL AROUND THE TREES, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO CONNECT.
PEOPLE CAN WALK Z EXACT RIGHT.
UH, JUST WANT TO SAY TOO, I KNOW THAT WE'RE KIND OF GOING BACK AND FORTH ON THE AMOUNT OF ENTRANCES, AND I DO KNOW THAT YOU, YOU GUYS NEED TO DO A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH AND SEE IF WE'RE GONNA RE IT'S GONNA REQUIRE MORE THAN TWO, THOSE TWO ENTRANCES, ENTRANCES.
BUT YOU KNOW, MY OPINION IS IF WE WERE TO ADD A THIRD ENTRANCE, IT WOULD BE ONE OF THE EXISTING ONES THAT WE HAVE OFF OF VE GROVE, WHICH WILL BE IN THAT SIDE PARKING LOT DOWN.
IF WE HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER OR ADDITIONAL ENTRY FEATURE.
AND IN THE EVENT THAT SOMETHING HAD TO BE CREATED ON THE ARAPAHOE SIDE, THAT WAS, IF I'M IN THE MINORITY ON THAT, WE ALREADY HAVE AN ENTRANCE IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY THAT'S EXISTING, WHICH IS FURTHER BACK AWAY FROM THE TURN LANE AT 75 AND ARAPAHOE.
'CAUSE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TOO MUCH TRAFFIC BACKED UP ON EITHER SIDE, EITHER AN ENTRANCE ON 75 OR ON ARAPAHOE.
SO I'M JUST SAYING, I'M, I'M, I'M FOR THE WAY IT'S DESIGNED NOW, BUT MOST LIKELY WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA END UP MEETING THAT THIRD ENTRANCE WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
BUT, AND I THINK WHERE WE HAVE IT NOW ON BELL GROVE IS REALLY A BETTER OPTION FOR THAT AND KEEPING THE PEDESTRIAN, UM, AREAS, UH, FLUID SO PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY GET OUT, NOT FEEL LIKE SOMEONE'S GONNA RUN OVER THEM OR THERE'S TOO MUCH TRAFFIC, AND THEN GET OUT AND ENJOY THE COMMON AREA.
AND THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF PRODUCING THIS.
SO, UM, THE REASON WHY WE TOOK THIS ONE OUT IS TO HELP WITH THE FLOW OF THE BOOK DROP OFF.
UM, AND TO NOT HAVE PEOPLE TRYING TO TURN IN WHILE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO USE THE BOOK DROP OFF.
SO THAT'S WHY THAT ONE GOT ELIMINATED AT THAT LOCATION.
AND I, AND I, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT AND, AND I PERSONALLY LIKE THAT.
SO IT JUST KEEPS EVERYTHING ON THE BACKSIDE AND THE, UH, BELL GROVE SIDE FOR INSURANCE.
I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK AT AT, UM, ADDING ONE HERE AND THEN, UM, SINCE ONE OF THE GREAT FEATURES ABOUT THIS IS HAVING THAT MAIN DRIVE, THAT PROMINENT DRIVE.
SO I THINK THERE WE WOULD MAYBE WANT TO LOOK AND EXPLORE AT IF, UM, OPPORTUNITIES RIGHT HERE, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NEEDING TO DO.
IT LOOKS, IT LOOKS, IT LOOKS GOOD.
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JUST, JUST SAYING, JUST FOR EVERYONE IN THE EVENT THERE WAS A THIRD ONE THAT, THAT WOULD PERSONALLY BE MY OPTION.DID YOU, YOU GET MR. DORIAN, I MEAN, BARRIOS, I'M SORRY.
UM, THIS ME THINKING OUT LOUD HERE, UH, THAT WESTERN POSSIBLE FUTURE ENTRANCE, WHICH IS CURRENTLY AN ENTRANCE ON BELL GROVE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO POSSIBLY, 'CAUSE I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS EXITING ONTO 75, IF THE EXIT ONTO 75 IS DIFFICULT, OR IF THERE'S OTHER REASONS WHY WE WOULDN'T WANT TO DO THAT, THAT ARE UNKNOWN TO ME, UM, WOULD THAT WESTERN, WHERE THAT ENTRANCE CURRENTLY IS NOW, IS THERE A WAY TO MAKE IT TO WHERE IT'S EASIER TO EXIT, TO EXIT AND HEAD EAST ON BELL GROVE SO THAT THEY COULD EXIT ONTO 75? SO A WAY OF, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S KIND OF OPEN IF WE, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THERE BEING NOT ENOUGH ENTRANCES AND EXITS, UM, AS COUNCILMAN HUTCHIN RIDER MENTIONED EARLIER.
SO I GUESS, IS THERE A WAY TO PUT A LIGHT THERE OR MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE TO HELP PEOPLE EXITING CAMPUS MAKE A LEFT ONTO BELL GROVE AS THEY'RE CAMPUS SO THEY COULD HEAD SOUTHBOUND ON 75 MM-HMM.
YEAH, I MEAN THAT, THAT'LL BE A PART OF OUR EVALUATION.
UH, WHAT WE'LL DO IS, WE'LL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND RUN THE TRAFFIC MODELING TO SEE WHAT, WHAT WE WOULD NEED.
I MEAN, I, MY, MY FIRST GUT WOULD SAY A A A LIGHT WOODEN WARRANT THERE, BUT THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT STRATEGY THAT WE COULD IMPLEMENT TO HELP THAT.
WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY EVALUATE THAT.
UM, AND MY COMMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE DATA, WE HAD 52% ASK FOR AN EXIT OFF FROM ARAPAHOE, UM, THAT, THAT'S SO CLOSE TO A 50 50, UM, TYPE SPLIT.
AND BEING THAT OUR SAMPLE SIZE WAS, ALTHOUGH GREAT COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS, AND I KNOW WE HAD AMAZING TURNOUT AND IT, IT, THE FEEDBACK SESSIONS WERE AWESOME, IN MY OPINION.
UM, IT, THE DATA IS JUST SO CLOSE TO A MARGIN OF, OR, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK OF LARGER SAMPLE SIZE OF THE CITY.
SO I REALLY, MY, MY THOUGHT THERE IS CONTINUES TO BE THE SAFETY AND JUST A COMMON GATHERING PLACE FOR PEOPLE.
AND SO THAT'S KIND OF MY THOUGHT.
RU MAYOR, THE ONLY THING I WOULD ASK IS, UM, IN ADDITION TO ASKING THE FIRE MARSHAL, I WOULD REALLY LIKE CHIEF TITTLE AND THE POLICE TO TAKE A REALLY STRONG LOOK AT WHATEVER, A ONE, A TWO AND MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE NOT MISSING SOMETHING THERE AS FAR AS ACCESS FOR THEM.
I MEAN, WE LIVE IN THE WORLD 2023, AND I HATE TO EVEN HAVE TO MENTION THAT, BUT WE DO LIVE IN THE WORLD 2023 AND JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FROM THEIR VIEWPOINT, THEIR ANGLE, NOT ONLY THE FIRE CONCERN, WHICH HOPE TO GOD WE NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH AGAIN, BUT WE COULD AT SOME POINT IN TIME HAVE TO DEAL WITH A, WITH A, WITH A, WITH A POLICE SURE.
PRESENCE ON THIS, ON THIS CAMPUS.
SO I WOULD, I WOULD ASK THAT THEY ALSO ABSOLUTELY TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THIS AND MAKE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THEY HAVE TOCAUSE.
I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT AS WELL.
AND I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE Y'ALL HAVE DONE THAT.
I DON'T KNOW, BUT I, I DIDN'T HEAR IT, SO I THOUGHT I WOULD BRING IT UP.
YEAH, NO, WE HAVEN'T TALKED TO THE POLICE YET.
WE HAVE BEEN, UM, DEFINITELY TALKING TO THEM ABOUT, UM, THE BUILDING SECURITY THOUGH,
AND THAT'S CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE AND YOU KNOW, BUT I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE OVERALL CAMPUS BECAUSE AGAIN, FROM, FROM ACCESS POINTS IN AND OUT IN THE EVENT OF A, OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER, SOMETHING ALONG ALONG THOSE LINES.
I THINK, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE THAT REVIEW AS WELL, AND I'D ASK THAT WE DO THAT AS WELL.
I WOULD JUST SUMMARIZE A TWO, UH, WE WILL EVALUATE, UH, A POTENTIAL THIRD, UH, ENTRANCE EXIT, AND, UH, THAT'LL COME WITH A, UH, ASSESSMENT AS WELL.
THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES THAT WE MIGHT PUT IN.
AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE, THERE'S A CONSENSUS THAT WE ELIMINATE THE TWO PARKING, UH, SHADED AREAS AND WE'LL CONSIDER THOSE AT A FUTURE TIME IF, IF NEEDED.
UM, JUST A COUPLE OR ANOTHER HOUSEKEEPING ITEM THAT WE WANTED TO TOUCH UPON.
UM, SO THE STAFF HAS BEEN MOVING FORWARD WITH THE C M A R PROCESS FOR THE CITY HALL AND CAMPUS PROJECT.
UM, AND, UM, THEY WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF, UM, HAVING 10 FIRMS, UM, SUBMITTED FOR THE R F Q AND THEY NARROWED THAT DOWN TO, UM, A SELECTION OF FOUR AND INTERVIEWED THEM.
AND, UM, BALFOUR BD, UH, WAS, UM, RANKED AS THE TOP PROPO, UM, PROPOSER.
AND THEY WILL, UM, YOU WILL BE SEEING THEIR, UM, PRE-CONSTRUCTION SERVICES ON THE, UH, CONSENT AGENDA ON SEPTEMBER 25TH.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.ALRIGHT, WE'LL WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM
[D. REVIEW AND DISCUSS PUBLIC ART FOR 2021 BOND PROJECTS]
D REVIEW AND DISCUSS PUBLIC ART FOR THE 2021 BOND PROJECTS.UH, WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE MEREDITH MCKINLEY HERE.
SHE MAY BE A FAMILIAR NAME AND FACE TO MANY OF YOU.
UH, HER, UH, CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR PUBLIC ART ARE LITERALLY ALL OVER THE CITY.
AND, UH, THIS IS A RELATED TOPIC TO THE PRIOR TOPIC THAT WE WERE JUST BRIEFED ON.
UH, MEREDITH IS GOING TO, UH, WALK US THROUGH, UH, OUR FIVE, I'M SORRY, OUR FOUR, UH, PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITIES COMING OUTTA THE 2021 BOND PROGRAM.
SHE'LL EXPLAIN THE PROCESS, UM, AND THE, UH, R F P PROCESS THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH AS WELL.
SO, MEREDITH, WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE YOU WITH US THIS EVENING, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.
UM, IT IS EXCITING TO BE BACK HERE IN RICHARDSON.
UM, UH, AGAIN, MY NAME'S MEREDITH MCKINLEY.
MY COMPANY VIA PARTNERSHIP IS BASED IN ST.
LOUIS, MISSOURI, BUT WE'VE BEEN WORKING IN THE, IN THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX.
I WAS, UH, JUST REFLECTING THIS MORNING FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS, UH, WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES TO DO PUBLIC ART PLANS AND TO COMMISSION PUBLIC ART.
UM, UM, AND WE BEGAN OUR WORK IN RICHARDSON.
UM, UH, 10 YEARS AGO, UH, I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM, UH, MC MASSEY, WHO SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING CALLS I'VE EVER RECEIVED IN MY CAREER IN PUBLIC ART.
UM, HE SAID THEY HAD A PLAYGROUND
AND THAT WAS THE, UM, THE HEIGHTS PARK ROCKET PROJECT.
UM, AND SO WE CAME IN AND WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO MANAGE THAT PROCESS OF HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW TO HONOR, UM, THE LEGACY OF THE HEIGHTS PARK PLAYGROUND WITH THE WORK OF ART AND, UM, WORKED WITH THE, UH, THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM.
AND THAT'S BEEN A REALLY GREAT, UH, PROJECT ONE THAT I SHARE WITH CLIENTS ALL THE TIME.
UM, AND THEN FROM THAT PROJECT, UH, WE BEGAN WORKING WITH THE CITY ON A PUBLIC ART MASTER PLAN, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN 2015.
SO THAT PROCESS OF COMMISSIONING THE ARTWORK IN HEIGHTS PARK LED TO A PUBLIC ART PLAN.
AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND.
UM, THREE PROJECTS WE'VE MANAGED, NOT ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT, UM, THAT THE CITY HAS DONE, UM, WAS THE, UH, MICRO MACRO MOJO PROJECT, UM, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET AT GREENVILLE AND ALMA.
UM, THE, UM, THREE PIECES THAT ARE PART OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, COMPLEX THAT WERE INSTALLED OVER 2019 AND 2020.
AND THEN MOST RECENTLY, UH, WE WERE BACK, UM, TO COMMISSION THE ARTWORK, WHICH IS THE PIECE ON THE RIGHT, UH, BY TARYN MCMAHON AT THE SENIOR CENTER, WHICH IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY BEAUTIFUL PIECE.
I FINALLY GOT TO SEE IT IN PERSON, UH, MYSELF ON MY LAST VISIT.
UM, SO, UM, BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES, WANTED TO JUST, UM, ESTABLISH A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT FOR THE PROGRAM FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT NOT BE AS FAMILIAR WITH IT.
UM, UH, THE PUBLIC ART MASTER PLAN, UH, UH, ESTABLISHES A VISION FOR PUBLIC ART.
AND THIS VISION WAS DEVELOPED AFTER A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INPUT.
WE HAD, UH, UM, UH, A, A LARGE COMMUNITY WIDE WORKSHOP, UM, UM, AS WELL CALLED IMAGINE ART HERE.
AND THAT VISION IS THAT PUBLIC ART EMERGES AND WILL INSPIRE A SPIRIT OF CURIOSITY, OPENNESS, AND CIVIC PURPOSE.
SO WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? AND I THINK THE GOALS SORT OF EXPAND ON THAT QUITE NICELY, AND I WON'T READ ALL OF THESE, BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF BIG IDEAS HERE.
ONE IS, IS THAT THAT PUBLIC ART HAS AN ABILITY TO IMPACT THE CHARACTER OF RICHARDSON AS A WHOLE, BUT ALSO TO REALLY, UM, TO THINK ABOUT THE IDENTITY AND THE CHARACTER OF INDIVIDUAL PLACES THROUGHOUT RICHARDSON.
UM, THE OTHER IDEA THAT I THINK CAME THROUGH THAT PROCESS WAS THAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN ART.
THAT IS, IS WHAT WE CALL IN SORT OF THE ART WORLD SITE SPECIFIC, THAT THE ART COMES OUT OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PLACE AND THIS COMMUNITY, WHAT ITS VALUES ARE, UM, AND AS WELL AS ITS HISTORY AND ITS HERITAGE.
AND SO THE ART CAN RESPECT THE, THE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY WITH PROJECTS LIKE, UM, THE ROCKET SHIP PLAYGROUND OR THE PIECE AT, UM, UH, AT THE SENIOR CENTER THAT LOOKS AT THE, SORT OF THE ECOLOGICAL SORT OF CONTEXT OF THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT ALSO LOOKS TOWARDS THE FUTURE.
AND THAT THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT IS ALSO VERY FUTURE, FUTURE FOCUSED.
UM, THAT, UM, PUBLIC ART PLAN ALSO, ONE OF THE OUTCOMES OF THAT PLAN WAS THE PERCENT FOR OUR ORDINANCE, WHICH IS WHAT BRINGS ME HERE TODAY.
UM, THAT ORDINANCE WAS, UM, ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN OCTOBER OF 2015.
AND IT, UM, DESIGNATES OR ALLOWS FOR UP TO 2% OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATION FUNDING FOR AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED, UM, BOND PROJECTS TO BE DESIGNATED
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FOR PUBLIC ART.SO I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, UH, THESE ARE THE FOUR WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.
I'VE MADE A COUPLE VISITS AND HAVE HAD A, A NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS WITH STAFF, UM, AND THEN WAS HERE LAST WEEK AND GOT A CHANCE TO MEET WITH THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION TO REVIEW SOME OF THESE GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
AND SO THAT INPUT IS REFLECTED IN WHAT I'LL BE PRESENTING TODAY.
THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY IS FIRE STATION NUMBER FIVE.
UM, THE PUBLIC ART BUDGET AT THAT 2% LEVEL IS A $75,000 BUDGET THAT BUILDING'S ESTIMATED FOR COMPLETION ABOUT A YEAR FROM NOW.
UM, FOR EACH OF THESE, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SELECTION PANEL.
SO THIS WILL BE THE GROUP OF CITIZENS THAT'LL BE INVOLVED IN, UH, MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND THE ARTWORK THAT'S SELECTED, AND THEY'LL MAKE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION AND THEN ULTIMATELY TO THIS BODY FOR APPROVAL.
UM, YOU'LL NOTICE ON EACH OF THESE, WE'VE GOT TWO MEMBERS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION, AND THEN WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM DIFFERENT BODIES THAT ARE, UM, SPECIFIC TO THE SITE.
SO IN THIS CASE, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, FROM THE FIRE STATION ITSELF, FROM THE FIRE ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
AND THEN WE'D LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY FROM THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM THERE THAT'S THERE AS A SORT OF A TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE, AS WELL AS SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE FOR EACH OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES.
WE ALSO, AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO START WITH GOALS.
SO WHAT IS THE IMPACT THAT WE WANT THE ART TO HAVE IN THIS SPACE? UM, WHAT CAN THE ART BE ABOUT? AND, UM, THIS HAS BEEN REALLY INFORMED WITH OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, AND IS SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE GOALS THAT WE HAD FOR THE FIRE, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY COM, UH, COMPLEX.
SO HONORING THE ROLE OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND KEEPING THE COMMUNITY SAFE.
UM, THE, UH, DEPARTMENT ITSELF IS INTERESTED IN IF THE ARTIST COULD EMPLOY SYMBOLS OR IMAGES OR NARRATIVES RELATING SPECIFICALLY TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
UM, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT PROVIDING A FUNCTIONAL AMENITY, SO SIMILAR TO THE FIRE STATION NUMBER ONE, WHERE THE ARTIST DEVELOPED THE RED SCREEN THAT YOU SEE, UM, ON THE FACADE OF THAT BUILDING.
SO SOMETHING THAT IS A FUNCTIONAL AMENITY THAT'S INTEGRATED INTO THE DESIGN OF THE SITE.
SO NOT JUST A STANDALONE PIECE, ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT ALSO KEEPING IN MIND THAT IT'S, UM, REALLY IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON HERE, AND I CAN SEE IF THAT WORKS.
SO THIS IS, UH, THE EXISTING FIRE STATION NUMBER FIVE.
AND IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE BUILDING, THERE'S THE OTHER, UM, THE, UH, OTHER BUILDING THAT'S HERE THAT IS THE SUBSTATION.
THERE IS A OUTDOOR AREA HERE THAT THE FIREFIGHTERS USE AS AN OUTDOOR RECREATION SPACE.
UH, THE FIREFIGHTERS CAN TAKE THEIR MEALS OUTDOORS.
IT'S A NICE SORT OF SHADED SPACE.
UM, AND AT PRESENT THERE IS A, UM, POND HERE THAT IS GONNA BE CONVERTED INTO A WETLAND.
SO THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO CREATE A NEW PRIVACY FENCE THAT WOULD BE HIGHLY VISIBLE FROM RENTER ROAD.
UM, BUT THEY COULD BE A, UM, UH, A WORK OF ART IN ITSELF.
SO THE IDEA, AGAIN, IS SOMETHING THAT'S FUNCTIONAL, THAT'S INTEGRATED INTO THE BUILDING THAT EMPLOYS SOME SYMBOLS OF, OF FIREFIGHTING THAT ALSO SERVES AS A FUNCTIONAL AMENITY.
UM, IF THE BUDGET, UM, ALLOWS, THE ARTIST COULD ALSO CONSIDER PUTTING, UM, UH, SIMILAR WORK SORT OF OUT.
BUT THE IDEA IS IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VISIBLE FROM THE ROADWAY.
THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY IS THE ANIMAL SHELTER.
UM, AGAIN, THE 2% BUDGET IS ROUGHLY ABOUT 48, 48, 40 $9,000.
SO THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, UH, SIMILAR COMPOSITION WITH THE SELECTION PANEL.
SO TWO MEMBERS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE ANIMAL SHELTER.
WE'D LIKE TO HAVE TWO STAFF MEMBERS INVOLVED.
UM, THEY HAVE A LOT OF, UM, UM, IDEAS ABOUT HOW THEY WANT PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE AND SORT OF THE, THE, THE, THE VIBE ESSENTIALLY THAT THEY WANNA HAVE IN THAT SPACE WHEN PEOPLE COME TO ADOPT PETS.
AND SO WE REALLY WANT THEIR SORT OF EXPERTISE ON THEIR CUSTOMERS, UM, AS WELL.
UH, HERE'S A RENDERING OF THE BUILDING.
UM, YOU MIGHT RECALL FROM PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS THAT THE BUILDING IS, UM, RECEIVING AN ADDITION IN THE FRONT, AND THEN IT WILL BE A RECONFIGURATION OF THE PARKING.
UM, THE NEXT SCREEN ACTUALLY SHOWS THAT A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BUT WE HAVE TWO SPACES, UM, HERE AND HERE THAT COULD BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR AN ARTWORK, AGAIN, TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S VERY WELCOMING TO THE COMMUNITY, IMPROVING THE VISIBILITY
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OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER FROM THE STREET.SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S A SIGN THERE, BUT IT IS, UM, A LITTLE NONDESCRIPT.
UM, AND THEN REALLY JUST SHOWCASING AS THIS IS A PLACE TO ADOPT ANIMALS.
I THINK THIS IS A LITTLE BIT BETTER OF A, UM, OF A RENDERING HERE.
SO YOU CAN SEE, UM, THIS WOULD BE THE NEW PARKING AREA HERE, SO PEOPLE COULD ENTER, THEY COULD USE THE STAIRS OR THE RAMP.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT TWO SPOTS HERE, UH, FOR A PIECE THAT AN ARTIST COULD, UH, INSTALL A PIECE, INSTALL A, UM, BACK TO THE LIBRARY.
SO WE HAVE A LARGER BUDGET FOR THIS PROJECT.
IT'S A $560,000 ART BUDGET, ESTIMATED COMPLETION OF SUMMER 25.
UM, SELECTION PANEL COMPOSITION, AGAIN, VERY SIMILAR.
SO TWO MEMBERS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION, A MEMBER OF THE LIBRARY BOARD WE'RE INTERESTED IN.
ACTUALLY, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT WITH THE, UM, CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION OF AT ONE OR MAYBE TWO, UM, YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS TO SIT IN ON THAT PROCESS.
UM, AS WELL AS TWO LIBRARY STAFF.
AGAIN, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE LIBRARY STAFF HAVE A VOICE AT THE TABLE, UM, AND THEIR BUILDING.
THEY KNOW THEIR, THEY KNOW THEIR CONSTITUENTS WELL.
UM, AND THEN WORKING WITH THE ARCHITECTS, UM, UH, FROM A TECHNICAL POINT OF VIEW.
SO WE HAVE, UM, UM, SOME GOALS THAT WE'VE WORKED ON, UH, FOR THIS AS WELL.
SO CONTRIBUTING TO THE RICHNESS AND WELCOMING NATURE OF THE LIBRARY.
UM, CELEBRATING ACCESS TO LITERACY, CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY, AND LEARNING FOR ALL AGES.
AND I THINK THAT ALL AGES IS REALLY IMPORTANT, THAT, THAT THIS IS A, UM, A LOT OF THE SPACES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR ART ARE GONNA BE PLACES THAT ENGAGE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING ITSELF HAS GOT A STRONG DESIGN, SO COMPLIMENTING THAT DESIGN, KEEPING THAT DESIGN IN MIND SO THAT IT'S, UM, IT'S COMPLIMENTARY OF THAT, UM, ENHANCING BOTH THE INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE.
ONE IS AN INTERIOR, ONE'S AN EXTERIOR, UM, REFLECT REFLECTING THE, THE SPIRIT OF RICHARDSON, AND THEN EMBRACING THE CITY'S ONGOING DIVERSIFICATION AND VIBRANCY.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY, I WAS MAKING NOTES WHILE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LIBRARY EARLIER, AND THERE'S THIS IDEA OF TIMELESSNESS TOO THAT I THINK IS REALLY INTERESTING TO THINK ABOUT WITH THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE INTERIOR DESIGN, BUT ALSO THINKING ABOUT THAT WITH THE ART AS WELL.
SO THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY WE'RE LOOKING AT, SO WE'RE, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE LIBRARY BUILDING.
SO THIS WOULD BE THE ENTRANCE HERE.
THIS IS THE, UH, SOUTHEAST CORNER.
BUT WE'VE SHOWN THE SECOND FLOOR HERE BECAUSE WE WANTED TO SHOW THIS TWO STORY ATRIUM SPACE THAT IS, UH, CONNECTS THE, UH, THE CHILDREN'S AREA TO THE JUVENILE AREA ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND THE STAIRWAY, WHICH WERE, WAS DISCUSSED EARLIER.
SO THIS IS REALLY AN INTERESTING TWO STORY VOLUME, UM, THAT WHERE AN ARTIST COULD SUSPEND SOMETHING FROM THE CEILING.
SO HAVE SOMETHING VERY SORT OF, UM, UPLIFTING, UM, AND, UM, COLORFUL POTENTIALLY IN THAT SPACE.
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT SPACE IS, IS, UM, UH, DEPENDING ON HOW THE WORK IS ORIENTED, IT WOULD ALSO BE VISIBLE FROM THE OUTSIDE.
SO WHEN YOU'RE IN THE AREA, IN THE PLAZA AREA THAT WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING AT THE FOUNTAIN, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE BUILDING AND SEE THE WORK OF ART THROUGH THE WINDOWS.
UM, BECAUSE OF WHERE IT'S LOCATED WITHIN THE LIBRARY, IT OF COURSE YOU'D BE A PIECE THAT REALLY APPEALS TO CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES.
UM, AND, AND AGAIN, CONSIDER VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE, INSIDE BELOW AND FROM THE SECOND FLOOR.
THE SECOND OPPORTUNITY, WHICH IS THE EXTERIOR OPPORTUNITY WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT, IS, UM, SO HERE, UH, HERE IS THE STAIRCASE THAT YOU WERE JUST DISCUSSING.
THERE'S A, UM, IN THE, THE FRONT ENTRANCE.
SO THERE'S A, A GREEN SPACE THAT'S HERE, AND THAT WOULD BE SORT OF THE MAIN NODE WHERE WE WOULD ASK AN ARTIST TO TAKE A LOOK.
BUT REALLY THINKING ABOUT THAT, THAT SORT OF PATHWAY FROM PARKING INTO THE BUILDING.
AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING, UM, UH, HERE THAT ENGAGES PEOPLE AT THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING.
IT'LL ALSO BE A NICE PIECE TO HAVE IF YOU'RE BEING DROPPED OFF, UM, OR THAT GREETS YOU, UM, WHEN YOU'RE ARRIVING AT THE BUILDING.
FINALLY, CITY HALL, UM, THE PUBLIC ART BUDGET, UM, AS, AS BUDGETED RIGHT NOW IS ONE ABOUT $1.3 MILLION.
AGAIN, RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT TWO MEMBERS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION, A MEMBER OF THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION, TWO CITY HALL STAFF MEMBERS, AND THEN THE ARCHITECT IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
WE'VE GOT A FALL 2026 COMPLETION.
UM, WE'RE EARLIER IN THIS PROCESS, UM, AS THE BUILDING IS STILL, THERE'S STILL SOME MAJOR
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ISSUES THAT ARE BEING DISCUSSED.SO WE'VE BEEN REALLY LOOKING AT THESE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, WHICH YOU JUST SAW IN THE EARLIER PRESENTATION AS A STARTING POINT.
AND WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS REALLY INTEGRATE THE PUBLIC ART CONVERSATION INTO THE ONGOING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DESIGN PROCESS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH A SET OF GOALS SPECIFICALLY FOR ART AND IDENTIFY THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
SO RIGHT NOW, THE OPPORTUNITIES WE'RE LOOKING AT ART ARE REALLY JUST THE ONES YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSING AS PART OF THE BUILDING, UM, AND THE DESIGN, WHICH, YOU KNOW, HAVE FOCUSED ON POTENTIALLY A PIECE HERE.
UM, BUT WE'RE STILL VERY OPEN AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO SORT OF WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH THE SITE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
SO HOW DO WE GET THIS ALL DONE? UM, SO WE'RE FOLLOWING REALLY THE, THE MODEL THAT WE'VE USED WITH THE CITY OF RICHARDSON IN THE PAST IN TERMS OF FACILITATING A PROCESS, UM, WITH A COUPLE OF, OF, UM, DISTINCT DIFFERENCES.
SO, UM, WHEN WE SELECT AN ARTIST, WHEN WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF RICHARDSON, AND, AND WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR, YOUR, UM, PUBLIC ART MASTER PLAN, WE START WITH AN R F Q.
SO SIMILAR TO WHEN YOU'RE SELECTING AN ARCHITECT, WE PUT OUT A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND ARTISTS SUBMIT THEIR QUALIFICATIONS.
SO FOR ARTISTS THAT WOULD BE THEIR PORTFOLIO.
SO, UM, IMAGES OF THEIR, THEIR PREVIOUS WORK, A RESUME, A COVER LETTER AND REFERENCES, UM, WE WOULD, UM, PUT THAT R F Q ON THE STREET AND WE WOULD DISTRIBUTE IT BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY.
AND I GUESS I SHOULD SAY THAT THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND PREVIOUS PROJECTS IS THAT MANY OF THE PREVIOUS PROJECTS THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH ON THE, WITH THE CITY OF RICHARDSON, WE'VE SENT THAT TO A, A, AN A LIMITED LIST OF ARTISTS.
SO WE'VE DONE A, WHAT WE CALL AN INVITATIONAL PROCESS, WHERE WE'VE DEVELOPED A LIST OF ABOUT 20 TO 30 ARTISTS THAT WE'VE PRE-IDENTIFIED AND SENT THEM THE R F Q.
IN THIS CASE, WE WOULD LIKE TO DO AN OPEN PROCESS.
WE HAVE, UM, FIVE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES, FOUR GREAT OPPORTUNITIES, EXCUSE ME.
AND, UM, WE THINK THAT WE CAN GET, UM, AND LEARN ABOUT NEW ARTISTS, UM, THROUGH AN OPEN CALL.
THE, UM, UM, AND I THINK I JUST ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THIS, THE SELECTION PANEL WOULD THEN REVIEW THOSE SUBMITTALS, AND FROM THOSE SUBMITTALS THEY WOULD SELECT FINALISTS, WE'D CHECK THE REFERENCES, AND THEN WE WOULD INTERVIEW THEM.
AND IN THOSE INTERVIEWS, WE REALLY GET A CHANCE TO SEE HOW THEY WORK, WHAT THEIR PROCESS IS, AND HOW COMMITTED THEY WOULD BE TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S SITE SPECIFIC FOR RICHARDSON.
THAT RECOMMENDATION THEN WOULD COME TO THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION AND THEN TO CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
THEN ONCE AN ARTIST IS SELECTED, THEN WE INVITE THEM TO COME TO RICHARDSON, SORRY, THERE'S SOME REVIEW CRITERIA THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED TOO.
THIS IS, FOLLOWS THE SAME, UH, REVIEW CRITERIA THAT WE USED FOR THE MOST RECENT PROJECTS.
THEN ONCE AN ARTIST IS ENGAGED, THEN THEY COME TO RICHARDSON, THEY LEARN ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
WE SET UP MEETINGS WITH THE, UM, RESPECTIVE, UH, UH, ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS.
SO THEY REALLY GET A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITE AND THE OPPORTUNITIES.
AND THEN THEY DEVELOP A CONCEPT AND THEN THEY DEVELOP, THEY PRESENT THAT CONCEPT FIRST TO THE SELECTION PANEL.
ONCE THE SELECTION PANEL IS COMFORTABLE WITH THE CONCEPT, IT GOES TO THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION AND THEN BACK TO CITY COUNCIL FOR
SO MOST PUBLIC ART PROJECTS ARE, ARE, ARE TURNKEY PROJECTS, RIGHT? SO THE ARTIST THEN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FINAL DESIGN.
IN MANY CASES, THEY WOULD HAVE TO ENGAGE AN ENGINEER TO REVIEW DRAWINGS.
UM, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING THE ARTWORK HERE AND FOR INSTALLATION.
SO A CONTRACT IS DEVELOPED THAT OUTLINES ALL OF THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THE ARTIST WOULD HAVE TO EXECUTE THE WORK AND INSTALL IT ON SITE.
AND THEN WE'RE HERE WORKING WITH THE, UM, THE DIFFERENT, UH, ENTITIES THAT THE CITY TO ENSURE THAT IT'S DONE SEAMLESSLY.
SO THIS IS A LITTLE COMPLICATED, BUT WE'RE ON DIFFERENT TIMELINES FOR EACH PROJECT.
UM, OUR GOAL IS TO GET THE CALL FOR ARTISTS ISSUED.
UM, IN ORDER TO MEET THESE, UM, THESE, THE MOST, UH, UM, THE DEADLINES THAT ARE ABOUT A YEAR FROM NOW, WE REALLY NEED TO GET SOMETHING ON THE STREET BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH.
UM, WE WOULD HAVE, UM, USUALLY LIKE TO HAVE THE R F Q ON THE STREET AT LEAST FOR SIX WEEKS.
AND OUR FIRST SELECTION PANELS WOULD TRY TO MEET BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE ANIMAL SHELTER AND FIRE STATION FIVE.
UM, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, UM, IS ALSO IN A TIGHT TIMELINE, BUT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO DELAY THAT BY A FEW WEEKS SO THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE
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THAT SELECTION PANEL MEET UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.UM, WE WOULD BE COMING BACK TO YOU ALL, UM, UH, IN, UH, AGAIN BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR WITH A, WITH THE NAME OF AN ARTIST AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST FOR ANIMAL SHELTER AND FIRE STATION FIVE.
SO WE WOULD BE DOING THAT, UH, BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
SO DECEMBER 18TH, THAT WEEK OF DECEMBER 18TH, AND THEN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY WOULD COME IN FEBRUARY.
UM, AND THEN AGAIN, I LIKE TO GIVE THE ARTISTS ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS TO DEVELOP THEIR DESIGNS.
SO THAT'S WHEN THEY WOULD COME BACK.
UM, AND THEN FINAL DESIGN OF FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION.
AS YOU SEE, CITY HALL IS ON ABOUT A A A YEAR DELAY FOR THAT.
SO, UM, THAT PROCESS MIGHT LOOK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY ALSO.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING, AS WE IDENTIFY THOSE ART OPPORTUNITIES, I THINK WE'LL HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF WHAT THAT PROCESS NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE, WHO NEEDS TO BE ENGAGED, WHAT THE PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS LOOKS LIKE, WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S AN OPEN CALL OR AN INVITATIONAL CALL.
AND THAT WILL REALLY BE DICTATED BY THE KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES WE'RE LOOKING AT AND THE KINDS OF ARTISTS WE WANNA ENGAGE.
COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MEREDITH? SORRY, MR. BARRIOS.
UH, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT, UM, ALL OF IT, BUT PARTICULARLY THIS, THIS IDEA OF, UH, SOMETHING HANGING IN THE NEW LIBRARY SPACE.
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN THE CHILDREN'S AREA THERE AND WITH THE GLASS, IT'S JUST, THERE'S SO MUCH AMAZING OPPORTUNITY THERE.
I'D LOVE TO SEE WHAT, WHAT'S GONNA COME OUT OF THAT.
UM, IN REGARDS TO THE LIBRARY, HAS IT, WAS IT THOUGHT OR CONSIDERED, UM, ON THAT EXTERIOR OR THE NOT, IT'S NOT AN EXTERIOR, IT'S INTERIOR STAIRWELL.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF DON, THIS IS A QUESTION FOR YOU.
UM, BUT HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT EITHER DOING, I KNOW IN THE DESIGN IT SHOWED KIND OF COLOR BLOCK BLUE, BUT MAYBE SOME OTHER KIND OF PAINTING OR MURAL OR SOME MORE COLOR THERE TO MAKE THAT MORE OF AN ART PIECE.
'CAUSE THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF WHEN I SAW THOSE STAIRS AND I WAS IN AT THE LIBRARY BOARD MEETING, AND SO I SAW HIS, I SAW, UM, DOUG'S PRESENTATION A A FEW DAYS AGO.
FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND IS, WOW, THAT'S SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF DROP PEOPLE INTO THAT LIBRARY AND 'CAUSE FOR THE SAME REASONS MM-HMM.
YOU'RE YOU'RE THE LIAISON TO THE ART.
I THINK THAT'S WHY I SAID FIVE INSTEAD OF FOUR, BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT UP UNTIL, I THINK I PUT THE SLIDESHOW TOGETHER.
SO YEAH, I THINK AN EARLIER VERSION OF THE SLIDESHOW HAD THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY.
AND, AND I, WE TOOK IT OUT IN PART IN MY, IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH THE ARCHITECTS.
UM, ONE WAS WE WEREN'T SURE WHAT THE OUTCOME OF THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ELEVATOR WAS GONNA BE TODAY.
SO THAT WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY OBSCURED OUR VIEW TO THAT.
UM, THE OTHER IS THAT BETWEEN THE STAIRS AND SOME OF THE OTHER, UM, WINDOWS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT'S, IT'S REALLY VERY LITTLE SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT YOU HAVE THAT IS ACTUAL WALL IN THAT SPACE.
I, I THINK IT COULD BE A VERY INTERESTING OPPORTUNITY.
IT'S ALSO SOMETHING YOU CAN DO LATER.
UM, UM, UH, AFTER WE SORT OF DO THESE LARGER COMMISSIONS AND YOU, AND YOU SORT OF SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW THE OTHER ARTWORKS ARE COMING IN, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WANTED TO DO SOMETHING IN THAT SPACE.
UM, IT COULD ALSO BE DONE THROUGH THE, UM, INTERIOR DESIGN PROCESS AS WELL, SO THAT IT COMPLIMENTS, UM, SOME OF THE ENDEAR INTERIOR DESIGN CHOICES THAT YOU'RE MAKING, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE DIFFERENT SORT OF COLOR THEMES FOR THE DIFFERENT FLOORS, WHICH COULD BE AN INTERESTING WAY TO APPROACH THAT.
SO I, I DON'T THINK I, I THINK IT'S STILL AN, I THINK IT'S STILL AN OPPORTUNITY WORTH DISCUSSING A SMALLER OPPORTUNITY DOWN THE ROAD TO DISCUSS.
IT'S NOT AS LARGE OF A PROJECT.
IT'S SOMETHING WE COULD JUST LOOK AT.
CAN YOU GO BACK TO WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SELECTION MM-HMM.
'CAUSE THIS IS A, THIS ONE NO, UH, YEAH.
CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT MM-HMM.
I, I, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS THIS, THIS IS A UNIQUE PROCESS THAT YOU'RE, THAT YOU'RE PUTTING FORTH AS COMPARED TO WHAT I'VE SEEN DONE IN OTHER, WHEN ARTWORK HAS BEEN WORKING THROUGH.
AND I GUESS I'M, I'M, I'M A LITTLE QUESTIONING ON HOW DOES THIS NOT, I MEAN, RATHER THAN SAYING TO THE ARTIST, YOU KNOW, HERE ARE THE, THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, INSTEAD OF SAYING, INSTEAD OF ASKING FOR 10 SAMPLE IMAGES OF PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED PROJECTS THAT WE WOULDN'T ASK TO SAY, UH, FIVE
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POSSIBLE THEMES OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.'CAUSE I GUESS I, I, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, COUNCILMAN BARRIOS AND I WERE TALKING BEFORE THE MEETING AND I, I REALIZE ARTS, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THOSE BEAUTIES IN THE EYE, THE BEHOLDER THING.
BUT THERE'S SOME, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN THAT, YOU KNOW, AND WE, I GET THE CONCERN AND SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT I'VE GOTTEN IN THE PAST IS WE GET SO FAR DOWN WITH AN ARTIST MM-HMM.
YOU START GETTING DOWN A PROCESS.
THIS IS WHAT THEY LIKE, THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT, AND IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TURN MM-HMM.
AND SOME OF THE PIECES, AND I'LL JUST, WE WERE HAVING A SIDEBAR CONVERSATION.
DON'T MEAN TO DRAG YOU INTO MY, BUT WE BOTH WERE KINDA LIKE, HOW DID THOSE PIECES GET SELECTED? MM-HMM.
SO I'M JUST CONCERNED, I DON'T WANNA GO BACK DOWN THAT PROCESS AGAIN.
AND I, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT PROCESS.
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S THE WRONG PROCESS, BUT I JUST, I DON'T WANNA GET SO FAR DOWN THE ROAD WHERE THEN WE AS A COUNSELOR SITTING HERE SORT OF FEELING LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST A PERFUNCTORY VOTE AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY OVERARCHING CONCERN.
AND I'M NOT, I AM NOT AN ART CRITIC.
I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY OUT OF ANYBODY ON THIS DIOCESE.
I MAY BE THE MOST ART LIMITED PERSON, BUT I'VE JUST GOTTEN FEEDBACK IN THE PAST THAT WE GET SO FAR DOWN THE PROCESS IT'S HARD TO, TO TURN THE WHEEL TO WHEEL COURSE CORRECT.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY OVER MM-HMM.
BECAUSE THE WAY YOU HAVE THIS LAID OUT MM-HMM.
THAT'S, THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION OF WHAT I SEE HERE TONIGHT.
AND I DON'T, I HAVE CONCERN ABOUT THAT.
IF I AM, UH, IF I'M IN THE MINORITY, I'LL SHUT UP.
BUT I JUST KNOW AT LEAST, AT LEAST TWO OF US WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AHEAD OF TIME, DON'T MEAN TO DRAG YOU INTO IT, DAN, BUT, BUT I, I JUST, SOME OF 'EM, WE JUST, I STILL, I DRIVE AROUND TOWN AND PEOPLE ASK ME ALL THE TIME, WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE? MM-HMM.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE ROCKET SHIP MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ME.
SO, SO THE, SO THERE, THERE THERE'RE SORT OF TWO STANDARD WAYS OF APPROACHING AN ARTIST SELECTION PROCESS THAT ARE SORT OF BEST PRACTICES.
ONE IS WHAT WE'VE LAID OUT HERE, WHICH IS YOU SELECT AN ARTIST, UM, THAT ARTIST DEVELOPS A CONCEPT AND THAT'S WHEN THE CONCEPT WOULD SORT OF GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS FOR STARTING WITH A SELECTION PANEL, THEN GOING TO THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION, THE COMING TO COUNCIL.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE CONCEPT, THEN YOU GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
AND I'VE SEEN THAT, I BELIEVE IT MAY HAVE SEEN THAT HAPPEN A FEW TIMES WHERE AN ARTIST IS ASKED TO REVISIT THEIR DESIGN OR ANOTHER PROCESS THAT IS VERY COMMON.
UM, AND IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN AT THE INITIAL SUBMISSION PHASE, BUT IT WOULD BE HAPPEN AT THE FINALIST PHASE.
SO YOU WOULD SELECT THREE TO FIVE FINALISTS, AND THEN THOSE FINALISTS WOULD BE ASKED TO DEVELOP A CONCEPT PROPOSAL.
SO YOU'D HAVE MAYBE THREE TO FIVE DIFFERENT CONCEPTS THAT YOU'D BE REVIEWING.
AND THEN ACTUALLY IS THE PROCESS THAT WAS USED FOR THE MICRO MACRO MOJO PROJECT, UM, WHERE THE, WE ACT, WE DID ENGAGE THREE DIFFERENT, AND ACTUALLY WE DID DO THAT FOR THE ROCKET SHIP AS WELL.
WE HAD THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS FOR THE ROCKET SHIP.
UM, WHICH WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
JUST SORT OF TO SEE THAT THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT EACH ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS APPROACHED THAT WE COULD CERTAINLY DO THAT FOR THESE, IT DOES REQUIRE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, BUT NOT A LOT.
NOT ANY, NOT SO MUCH TIME THAT IT WOULD DELAY OUR ABILITY TO INSTALL.
AND, AND THE SECOND APPROACH YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WHAT I'M PROFESSIONALLY VERY USED TO.
SO AGAIN, I'M NOT THE EXPERT, I JUST THROW IT OUT HERE BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF CONCERNS I'VE HEARD IN THE PAST AND ABOUT GETTING SO FAR DOWN AND THEN TRYING TO WORK WITH ONE SPECIFIC ARTIST.
'CAUSE I THINK, I JUST THINK IT'S A PROCESS THAT, THAT I, I THINK WE, I JUST THINK WE WE'RE GONNA END UP WITH A BETTER PRODUCT LONG TERM WITH THE SECOND APPROACH THAT YOU'VE SUGGESTED VERSUS THE FIRST PROCESS.
AND I'LL, I'LL, I'LL, YEAH, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
I, I, I, THIS IS WHY WE'RE HERE.
WE WANTED TO NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES, BUT WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS.
AND SO, UH, UM, MEREDITH, IF, IF YOU DON'T SEE ANY SUBSTANTIAL IMPACTS TO THE TIMELINE, WHICH THAT, THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE DRIVING FORCE EITHER.
I, I WILL SAY THE, THE, THE, THE, THE BENEFIT, THE ONE BENEFIT THAT
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I HAVE SEEN WITH THIS PROCESS IS IT DOES ALLOW FOR THE SELECTED TO HAVE A MORE, MORE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND MORE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ARCHITECT.UM, THAT IF YOU'VE GOT THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS THAT ARE EACH PUTTING PROPOSALS TOGETHER, AND WE WOULD STILL BRING THEM ALL TO RICHARDSON AND HAVE THEM MEET PEOPLE AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, BUT IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE A COLLABORATIVE IS NOT AS COLLABORATIVE OR IT, IT, IT, IT, I GUESS I, I GUESS I WOULD DISAGREE.
I'VE SEEN IT WHERE IT'S GONE, LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING, WHERE IT'S BEEN VERY COLLABORATIVE BECAUSE THEN YOU HAVE THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS WHO ARE TAKING ALL OF THE FEEDBACK AND, AND IF WE DO IT RIGHT, YOU CAN GET A LOT OF FEEDBACK INTO THEM.
AND THEN THEY CAN WORK WITH THE ARCHITECTS.
SO I, I SURE, AND AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS YOUR WORLD, BUT I'VE, I'VE HAD A FAIR AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE IN IT.
NO, I, I THINK FOR THESE PROJECTS IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
UM, ON THE SELECTION PROCESS, I WROTE DOWN THAT I LIKED THE OPEN CALL VERSUS NARROWING IT TO THE 20 OR 30 THAT AS YOU'VE DONE IN THE PAST, I THINK THAT'S GREAT.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT ARTIST YOU'RE MISSING BY NARROWING THE FIELD.
AND THEN, THEN MY TWO OTHER QUESTIONS, UH, RELATE TO SORT OF ARTWORK ISH THAT ARE ON THE LIBRARY CAMPUS ALREADY.
IS DARBY STORY WALK, OR DO YOU KNOW JENNY, IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO KEEP THAT ON THE NEW CAMPUS AND ALSO THE HUMPTY STATUE? UH, YES.
WE'RE DEFINITELY KEEPING HUMPTY.
THEY'RE GONNA COVER HIM DURING CONSTRUCTION, SO, 'CAUSE HE'S HEAVY.
AND THEN, UM, PARKS IS GOING TO TAKE UP DARBY STORY WALK SOON, BUT I THINK WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO FIND A NEW PATH, BUT OKAY.
BUT WE BACK, WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE BACK.
I MEAN, THE PAUSE IS A GREAT PLACE FOR IT SINCE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT, BUT I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT UNTIL NOW, SO, YEAH.
UM, I HAVE A QUESTION SINCE, SINCE, UH, COUNCILMAN HUTCHIN WRITER DRAGGED ME INTO IT.
HE, HE'S A LOT MORE POLISHED THAN I AM.
I'LL BE A, MOST OF THESE PROJECTS I, I LOVE, UH, I, I GET SO MANY PO POSITIVE, I'VE HEARD SO MUCH POSITIVE FEEDBACK.
THINGS LIKE THE ROCKET, UH, THE SHIELD, UM, JUST SO MUCH POSITIVE.
AND YOU MENTIONED ENGINEERS GET INVOLVED.
AT WHAT POINT CAN YOU, AND I KNOW YOU MENTIONED IT MM-HMM.
AS I, I'M NEW TO THE COUNCIL, SO I WAS NOT INVOLVED, AND I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE, MANY PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THAT WERE INVOLVED WITH THAT, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO AT ALL.
UM, BUT, UM, AT WHAT POINT DO ENGINEERS GET INVOLVED BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE THE CABLES MM-HMM.
AND WOULD IT HAVE EITHER SAVED US MONEY OR TIME OR SOME HEADACHES IF MAYBE THE ENGINEERS WOULD'VE BEEN INVOLVED? A BIG PIECE LIKE THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE ANYTHING YOU'RE CONSIDERING NOW IS A LARGE PIECE LIKE THAT.
NO, IT, IT, UM, BUT I MEAN, THE MOST, THE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY WANNA HAVE ENGINEERS LOOK AT EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO BE SUSPENDED IN THE LIBRARY.
UM,
I MEAN, IT'S TYPICALLY FOLLOWS VERY SIMILAR TO A, AN ARCHITECTURAL PROCESS.
SO WE START WITH A CONCEPT, UM, DESIGN, UM, THAT IS, IT NEEDS TO BE DETAILED ENOUGH THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW IT'S GONNA CONNECT INTO THE GROUND.
WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IF IT'S GONNA BE WITHIN BUDGET OR BE ABLE TO BE DONE WITHIN THE TIMELINE.
AND THEN ONCE WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT CONCEPT, THEN THEY MOVE INTO SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND THAT'S WHERE WE MIGHT START TO ENGAGE WITH A, WITH A ENGINEER.
AND THEN THE FINAL DESIGN DOCUMENTS WOULD HAVE STAMPED ENGINEERED DRAWINGS OF CONNECTION POINTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
OR IF THERE'S WIND LOAD ISSUES OR OTHER KINDS OF THINGS THAT WOULD NEED TO BE, UM, REVIEWED BY AN ENGINEER FOR PERMITTING PROCESS, UH, PURPOSES.
UM, I, THAT PIECE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF OTHER ED CARPENTER'S, OTHER WORKS, I MEAN, HE DOES USE A LOT OF CABLING IN HIS WORK AESTHETICALLY ALSO.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT, I MEAN, IT DOES FEEL A LITTLE OVER-ENGINEERED.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND, UM, I, I TRY NOT TO BE, YOU KNOW.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T WANT TO TRY TO DE DECONSTRUCT ED'S PIECE RIGHT NOW IN THE MEETING, BUT YEAH.
I MEAN, SO, SO THAT WAS PART OF THE ART, THAT WAS PART OF THE, THAT WAS PART OF THE ARTWORK.
IT WASN'T SOMETHING WE'RE LIKE, HEY, NO, HE, OH, OKAY.
THAT'S, YEAH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS DEFINITELY PART OF THE DESIGN OF THE ARTWORK.
UH, WE WILL UTILIZE PROCESS TWO THAT WAS DESCRIBED.
[E. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE RENEWAL]
GO TO ITEM E REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE RENEWAL.UH, OUR MANAGEMENT ANALYST, HALEY, ALSO, BROOKE IS GONNA MAKE HER WAY TO THE PODIUM, UH, EACH, UH, EVERY TWO YEARS.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, UM, UH, IS UH, REVIEWED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
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THIS IS THE, UH, PART OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES THAT OUTLINES THE CITY MANAGER AND DEPARTMENT HEAD'S RESPONSIBILITIES.AND SO HAILEY'S GONNA RUN YOU THROUGH A SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE GOT PROPOSED.
UH, THIS WAS PROVIDED TO YOU IN YOUR PACKET ON THURSDAY, A RED LINE, AND WE HAVE A RED LINE AT FOR YOU AT YOUR PLACE AS WELL, HAILEY.
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.
AND MAYOR AND COUNSEL, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, UM, TO REVIEW THE RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU THIS YEAR.
AND FOR BACKGROUND, THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE IS PART OF CHAPTER TWO OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, AND IT DESCRIBES THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY MANAGER AS WELL AS THE DEPARTMENT AND DIVISION DIRECTORS.
AND, UM, AS PART OF THE ORDINANCE, THE CITY COUNCIL IS REQUIRED TO CONDUCT A BIANNUAL REVIEW OF THE ADMIN CODE AND TO MAKE ANY AMENDMENTS AS DEEMED UM, NEEDED.
STRUCTURALLY, THE ADMIN CODE IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN SECTIONS.
SECTION TWO DASH 51 IS COMPOSED OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS AND ORGANIZATION CHART.
SECTION TWO DASH 52 IS THE CITY MANAGER.
SECTION TWO DASH FIVE THREE THROUGH TWO DASH SEVEN FIVE IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS.
AND LASTLY, SECTION TWO DASH SEVEN SIX IS THE REQUIREMENT FOR COUNSEL TO CONDUCT A BIANNUAL REVIEW OF THE CODE.
HERE YOU'LL FIND THE DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
THIS CHANGE, UM, THE RECOMMENDED CHANGES SAW THE ADDITION OF TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS AS WELL AS PULLING OUT THE C V B AS AN INDIVIDUAL DIVISION.
UM, SOME OF THE PROPOSED RESPONSIBIL, UM, PROPOSED UPDATES, UM, INCLUDED SEPARATING SOME OF THE RE UM, SOME OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WERE REQUIRED FOR ALL DIVISION AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS TO TRY AND IMPROVE CONSISTENCY AND, UM, REMOVE THAT DUPLICATION.
WE ALSO, AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, WE, UM, HAD TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS CREATED THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS THE FACILITIES AND FLEET SERVICES.
AND THE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU WAS SEPARATED OUT INTO ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL DIVISION.
WE ALSO ADDED NEW RESPONSIBILITIES TO THREE DEPARTMENTS.
THE COMMUNITY SERVICES NOW REVIEW SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS.
UM, THE EISMAN CENTER, FOR EXAMPLE, ALSO SERVES AS A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE FACILITY.
AND THE ENGINEERING AND CAPITAL PROJECTS IS NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OVERSIGHT OF THE CAPACITY MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
FOR NEXT STEPS, THE CODE WILL BE PLACED ON THE SEPTEMBER 25TH COUNCIL AGENDA FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND RENEWAL.
AND IT WILL BE UP AGAIN FOR THE REQUIRED BIANNUAL REVIEW IN 2025.
AND NOW I'LL OPEN UP FOR ANY FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS, MS. JUSTICE? NO QUESTIONS.
IT WAS YOUR FIRST PRESENTATION AND YOU CRUSHED IT.
HAILEY, I ONLY HAVE ABOUT 30 QUESTIONS.
AND, UH, FOR THOSE WATCHING AT HOME OR WHO DO NOT KNOW, HAILEY, SHE IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BRIGHT MINDS THAT WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE IN OUR CITY.
I'VE TRULY ENJOYED, UH, GET TO KNOW HER AND HAVING THE ABILITY TO PICK HER BRAIN WHEN WE GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO HER.
GREAT JOB, FIRST PRESENTATION AND, UH, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.
[F. REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST]
TO ITEM F REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST COUNSEL, MR. DORIAN.I, UH, WELL IT WAS QUITE A, QUITE A BUSY WEEK, ACTUALLY, ANOTHER FUZZY WEEK, BUT IT WAS FUN.
WE HAD A GOOD TIME, UH, SUNDAY.
UM, WE ENDED UP GOING OVER TO, UH, ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF OUR VANS.
WE HAD THE LIGHT UP LOCKWOOD, WHICH WAS INCREDIBLE.
UM, THEY DID SUCH A GREAT JOB WITH ALL THE TREMENDOUS TECHNOLOGY AND CREATING ALL THE LIGHT SOURCES AND ON THE TOWER.
AND A VERY GOOD TURNOUT, BY THE WAY.
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KNOW THIS IS THE SECOND EVENT, BUT IT WAS NICE OUT AND IT WAS, THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING OUT TO THE, UM, TO THE COMPLEX AND, AND IT SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE JUST HAVING A REALLY GOOD TIME.AND THEN WE, UH, SHORTLY AFTER THAT, WE WENT OVER TO THE, UM, BAPTIST CHURCH.
IT'S, UH, RIGHT THERE OFF OF SHERMAN.
UM, THEY WERE HAVING A LITTLE SHINDIG AND, UH, OUTSIDE AND DANCING AND HOMEMADE BAR OR, UH, HOMEMADE BARBECUE.
AND, AND THEN, UH, THEY TOOK US ON A TOUR THROUGH THE FACILITY.
UM, THEY'RE ACTUALLY STARTING SORT OF A FOOD, WELL SAY A FOOD PANTRY.
IT'S NOT JUST FOOD PANTRY, IT'S FOOD AND CLOTHING PANTRY, WHICH IS REALLY NICE.
AND, UH, HAD A NICE TIME, UH, LEARNING MORE ABOUT THEIR, THEIR FACILITY.
WE DID SOME OTHER THINGS, BUT I'M GONNA LEAVE SOME THINGS ON THE TABLE FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
IT WAS A CLASS 32 KIND OF WEEK.
SO, UM, WE HAD THE RICHON REAL HEROES AWARD CEREMONY ON THURSDAY NIGHT, CLASS 32 ZONE.
WARREN CALDWELL, UH, RECEIVED THE RICHON REAL HEROES AWARD THAT NIGHT.
UM, ALONG WITH BARNEY, WHO I FOUND TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HILARIOUS PEOPLE, UH, I'D EVER HEARD SPEAK.
SO ONE OF OUR, OUR, UH, ORIGINAL LIBRARY BOARD, UM, MEMBERS, AND HE WAS GREAT.
UH, ALSO, UM, I ATTENDED ON SATURDAY SHAMROCKS AND SHENANIGANS HALFWAY TO ST.
PATRICK'S DAY FUNDRAISER OVER AT THE NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES IN HONOR OF PAT DOHERTY, MOTHER OF CLASS 32 ZONE MAUREEN DOHERTY.
AND IT WAS PACKED AND IT WAS A BLAST.
AND I THINK THEY RAISED SOME REALLY GOOD FUNDS, UM, UH, FOR SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS IN HONOR OF, UM, PAT WHO PASSED REACH RECENTLY.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS A GREAT COUPLE OF CLASS 32 HIGHLIGHTS FOR ME THIS WEEK.
UM, ON THURSDAY, MANY OF US WERE ABLE TO ATTEND THE IQ BREW ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION A YEAR IN REVIEW.
AND, UH, I THOUGHT THAT WAS A FANTASTIC EVENT.
AND THEN I JUST WANT A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO, TO DON AND ALL OF THE CITY STAFF WHO PULLED OFF LIGHT UP LOCKWOOD.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS A GREAT, GREAT EVENT.
WE ALL, WE ALL PUSHED THE BUTTON.
UM, THE TWO EXPLOSIONS ONLY SCARED JOE A. LITTLE BIT
UM, JUST THOUGHT IT WAS THE SUPER EVENT.
LAST WEDNESDAY, ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, UM, I ATTENDED MY FIRST LIBRARY BOARD AS THE COUNCIL LIAISON TO THE LIBRARY BOARD.
IT WAS, IT WAS A JOY TO SEE SOME OLD FRIENDS AND TO MEET SOME NEW PEOPLE AND, UH, TO HEAR THE ENERGY IN THE ROOM, THE FEEDBACK JUST, YOU KNOW, ANYTIME YOU GET TO BE IN A ROOM WITH, WITH READERS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT, UM, LIBRARY AND, UM, READING AND EDUCATING OTHERS AND IT, IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING, UH, WITH THEM AND JOINING THEM.
UM, AS COUNCILMAN DORIAN MENTIONED, UH, WE ATTENDED MOUNTAIN PISCA MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, UH, WITH, UH, MANY US DID.
UH, ON SATURDAY THEY HAD THE COMMUNITY CARNIVAL AS NEW PASTOR GREEN WAS BEING, UM, LED, BROUGHT IN AS A NEW PASTOR.
MOUNT PISCA, UH, IS THE OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN, UM, CHURCH IN DALLAS COUNTY.
IT DID NOT START IN RICHARDSON, BUT THE CONGREGATION ITSELF IS A HISTORIC CONGREGATION.
AND, UH, IT WAS REALLY NEAT TO, AS HE MENTIONED, JUST TO SEE THE WORK THEY THEY DO IN OUR COMMUNITY, THE VISION THEY HAVE FOR THE FUTURE, THE WAY THEY WANT TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY.
AND WE HAVE PEOPLE JOIN US FROM ALL OVER DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTY WHO WORSHIP THERE.
AND, UH, IT WAS JUST REALLY NEAT TO, UM, TO SEE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE, UH, WHO, WHO COME AND WORSHIP THERE.
UH, ON SATURDAY NIGHT, I WILL SAY MY PHONE WAS BLOWING UP ON SUNDAY.
UM, PEOPLE SAYING I CAN'T, HOW AMAZING, UH, LIGHT UP LOCKWOOD WAS SO GREAT JOB TO CITY STAFF.
THIS WAS, I DID NOT ATTEND LAST YEAR.
SO THIS WAS MY FIRST YEAR AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ENJOYABLE.
BOTH MY WIFE AND I SAID IT WAS WAY MORE THAN WE THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE AS FAR AS WE WERE QUITE IMPRESSED.
AND, UM, I ALSO HEARD FROM PEOPLE SAYING, HOW CAN, HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT IT? SO I DON'T KNOW HOW SOME PEOPLE STILL MISSED IT.
'CAUSE I KNOW WE, WE DID A GREAT JOB OF COMMUNICATING OUT, BUT SOMETIMES, UH, WE MISS THINGS WITH ALL THE COMMUNICATION WE GET FROM DIFFERENT.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT EVENT JUST CONTINUING TO GROW AND GETTING MORE AND MORE, UM, PART PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMUNITY.
IT WAS A GREAT TURNOUT, GREAT JOB TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED.
UH, THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION WAS BRIEFED ON SPLASH PADS ON TUESDAY AND WE HAD A LITTLE FIELD TRIP.
WE ALL GOT IN A BUS AND WE'RE FERRIED AROUND GARLAND AND LOOKED AT DIFFERENT SPLASH PADS.
IT WAS A REALLY COOL EVENT AND, UM, HONESTLY A REALLY NEAT TEAM BUILDING EVENT FOR THE ENTIRE COMMISSION.
SO WE LEARNED A LOT AND MORE TO COME, UH, TO
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THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ON COUNCIL ON THAT TOPIC.ALSO, UM, THE, I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED, UH, THAT FUSION VIBES KITCHEN AND LOUNGE HAS DECIDED TO JOIN THE CHAMBER AND IS COMMITTED TO GETTING MORE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THE OWNER WILL, IS REALLY, REALLY MADE A COMMITMENT TO BE INVOLVED, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY ALREADY AND HAS ALREADY DONATED MONEY TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
HE'S, UM, AND HE'S REALLY PROVIDING A TYPE OF CUISINE THAT IS UNIQUE TO THE AREA.
SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE AN ADDITIONAL SHOUT OUT TO THAT, THAT RESTAURANT.
IT SOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TIM.
WELL, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID SO FAR, BUT I JUST COULDN'T STOP, UH, EXPRESSING MY, YOU KNOW, THINGS ABOUT THE, UH, LOCK, LIGHT UP LOCK CODES.
UH, MY PHONE DID NOT RING ALL DAY, BUT IT DID RING FEW TIMES AND I DID RECEIVE, UH, REALLY, REALLY SOME GOOD, UH, COMMENTS.
UH, THIS IS BETTER THAN LAST YEAR.
AND THIS IS, AGAIN, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME AND THE BUTTON WORKS THIS TIME I THINK BECAUSE ALL SEVEN OF US PROBABLY PRESSED THIS TIME.
THAT'S WHY IT DID WORK RIGHT ON THE TIME.
UH, BUT ADDING THAT FIREWORKS A LITTLE BIT, I THINK THAT WAS GREAT.
UH, SO IT'S A GOOD, YOU KNOW, REALLY, REALLY GREAT.
BUT ONE THING REALLY, YOU KNOW, DON DID GREAT IS THAT KEEPING THE TEMPERATURE WEATHER OUTSIDE GOOD
UH, COUNSEL, I, I HAD ONE THING, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MS. JUSTICE AND I DID ON SATURDAY, WE DID A LOT OF THINGS, BUT, UH, THE MASONIC LODGE, UM, ACKNOWLEDGED AND CELEBRATED MR. CHARLES EMAN AS THE COMMUNITY WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS AWARD FOR ALL OF HIS DONATION TIME AND AMAZING WORK HE'S DONE FOR OUR CITY.
SO I WAS, UH, VERY HONORED TO BE ABLE TO GIVE A PROCLAMATION ON OUR COUNCIL'S BEHALF AND THE CITY'S BEHALF AND, UH, THOUGHT IT WENT REALLY WELL.
SO I'D LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO HIM AND THE MASONIC LODGE TODAY, UH, DO SOME AMAZING THINGS OVER THERE.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GONNA GO TO, UM, WE'RE GONNA CALL THIS MEETING ENDED AND WE'RE GONNA GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR A WHILE, SO I THINK I'LL GIVE US FIVE MINUTES, EVERYBODY TO TAKE A BREAK.
SO WE'RE GONNA SHUT THIS MEETING DOWN AT EIGHT 12 AND START BACK UP SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
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ALRIGHT.WE'RE BACK IN SESSION AFTER OUR BRIEF BREAK, I AM NOW GOING TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, UM, IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 5 51 DASH OH 8 7 1 AND TWO OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING DELIBERATION REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS IN THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT MAIN STREET SLASH US 75 AREA.