October 8, 2009
12 Noon, Room 1506
In attendance: See sign-in sheet
Meeting Minutes: From last meeting, with corrections, were distributed
Special Reports
Building 4000, Strength and Fitness Center, Materials and Colors - Kelly
Reynolds of SKW Architects presented interior and exterior site finishes for the
bldg. 4000 Strength and Fitness Center. The materials and colors were shown to
be compatible with other projects on campus. Doug Horner clarified aspects of
the project as LEED Silver, and how the Solar-Voltaic project was able to be
utilized for this project and others on campus to help achieve “points” towards this
certification. Add and Deductive alternates were also explained and addressed in
this project.
Project Status Update
Doug Horner reviewed status of all open/active projects currently under bid or in
construction…
IOB (400)-Still on schedule for January ’10 move in. Furniture has been ordered.
Trucks will arrive in November to begin the furniture installation.
CSSC(600-700)-Date for completion has now moved to January ’10. March/April
move-in is now being planned
500/1900-Progressing forward. Anticipate Spring opening for both. Spring ’10
classes fully scheduled in 500. Lightly scheduled in 1900. Planetarium room
(1902) will NOT be ready.
2200-Under construction, still on time for 10/12 opening. Gordon Watt indicated
concerns with IT having to work around an incomplete finish. Dale Wagoner
indicated that the fast track of this project was necessary, and that everyone had
to deal with minor inconveniencies to get this project done, and get the program
back up and running. Allan Ambrecht also indicated that there were problems
and omissions in mechanical because the whole building was not addressed. We
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have lost opportunity to replace some items that should have been replaced
because we only did half the building.
PE Complex-Still under Design. Dependant on bldg. 4000 for commencement.
4000-Construction timeline approved for 13 months. Bid documents are being
finalized. Almost ready to bid.
1200/1300-No change.
1700/1800-No change.
300-No change. Trish Shannon expressed concerns about the move of Learning
Skill out of Bldg. 100 and into this building. This lead to a significant discussion
regarding Bldg. 100, and the budget and how it got to where it currently resides.
This was also addressed under rumor control below…
Dovetail meeting planned for 10/14 @8:30am to coordinate and plan current
move-ins.
Rumor Control
The issue of the Bldg. 100 project and the budget for this project was discussed in
detail. Implications were made that this budget had been cut and decimated due
to the desire of the President and/or unnamed others towards the lack of
commitment to this project and the desire to construct a NEW library or LRC.
Doug Horner and Dale Wagoner both reviewed again the process by which the
budget was reduced to the current status of $4 million dollars. The primary
moving factor behind this drop was a twofold convergence of events generated by
the STATE, and not the College. The first was the funding of the FPP for the
bldg. 1700 and 1800 project. The second was the lack of funding from the State
for the Bldg. 100 project remodel. These two factors made it imperative that a
fund be developed for Bldg. 1700/1800. The College had not originally funded
1700/1800 out of Measure B. A budget needed to be developed out of Measure
B in order to leverage the State dollars that they had committed to the project.
This was done by pulling dollars out of many projects, but the bulk of the 9 million
dollars came from bldg. 100, since it was not on the State funding list, and the
likelihood of bldg. 100 being added to the funded list in the near future was
negligible. Since bldg. 100 could no longer go forward with a full renovation of the
facility, the budget was cut, and the scope of work needed to be re-evaluated.
Other monies were also taken from Faculty Office bldgs. on the West side of
campus, and from bldg. 200 to generate the 1700/1800 budget out of “thin air”.
Maintaining a budget of $4 million for bldg. 100 was an effort to develop that
space on the first floor with a scaled down re-model. There has been NO change
to this, and Steinberg Architects will be delivering a plan that addresses differing
levels of construction in this area. The College and the Facilities committee will
be able to review this shortly. Discussions had ensued about whether any major
remodel was wise given the original desire and intent for this space, however, this
was the REASON that Steinberg was given orders to give the College options to
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evaluate the most effective and efficient remodel and how the use of the allocated
dollars could be employed. These will include lighter to major remodels and the
relative costs of each. Users and the College can evaluate these at the time they
are delivered.
Further discussion ensued about the need to augment this budget to get it back.
It was pointed out that as a zero sum gain, other budgets would have to be cut,
and that getting to the current number had occurred and been vetted through the
Facilities committee previously. This led to more discussions about the Master
Plan, and how to use leftover Measure B dollars from other projects, or from the
interest derived from Measure B by the District. However, Horner again pointed
out that we had to operate within the parameters we had been given, and there
had been total transparency to the Facilities project surrounding bldg. 100. Many
of these factors would occur towards the back end of the Measure B project, and
one of the issues at concern to the users were the ongoing delays in the
institution of the bldg. 100 remodel. Employing the above strategies would result
in further delays. This would have to be addressed, and seemed counter to the
current desires of those in the process pushing for a move forward.
Other Matters Initiated
None
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