Special Bd. of Aldermen — 01-22-2019 Page 5
Mr. Cummings
Yes, well actually your last comment | want to make sure it clear. Not just during the week, on the weekends as
well so itis still going to be a multi-purpose, multi-functioning type space.
Alderman Lopez
Ok.
Alderman Jette
lf any members of the Board or who are not on the Steering Committee or anyone from the public wants more or
would like to look at the documents that you presented, where can we find those?
Mr. Cummings
So if | may Madam Chair, the easy answer is | provided everyone with all the attachments and | provided Sue
Lovering this evening with all that attachments and they will be part of your minutes this evening. You could easily
go there for everything, for convenience, that may make the most sense.
Alderman Jette
So the public, that’s all available to the public, they would go the minutes of this meeting? Ok, thank you.
Alderman Tencza
You mentioned before in the design that the stage is going to be on the first floor and maybe towards the back of
the building. Is that going to affect those apartments that are back there now and the City’s ability to rent any of
them?
Mr. Cummings
Yes that’s a great question; at least a few if we are going with this current design, at least a few, most likely all the
apartments would have to be removed. When that would occur we are still trying to understand that, we don’t want
to displace anyone. When again this project is still coming together and we still need to achieve that $4 million
dollars, we are very sensitive to the tenants who have been living there. Some of those tenants have been living
there for quite a while; there’s an open dialogue between them. | speak with them regularly; we will provide them
with as much notice as possible so that they can make alternative plans when the time comes. But to be clear
under this current iteration to be safe, | would say all the residents would need to be moved.
Alderman Dowd
| believe that we allocated $1 million dollars to start the design. How much of that is allocated to the architect and
construction manager? And do we feel that everything you are explaining here can be done, short of the actual
construction itself, for that million dollars?
Mr. Cummings
So to be clear, the contract was approved for | want to say $1.3 million at the Finance Committee. | believe that
that will take care of all the design related items including all the subs. We are still working through that process
right now with the architect. The architect and the construction manager, in fairness to them, understood the
aggressive timeline that the City was under, they were very confident that we could run parallel paths. They are
working with us to develop that finalized scope of work with the contract as well as starting to design the project.
