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Thank you for joining us, Council.

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Call the Broken Air City Council special meeting to order.

Roll call.

Pickle.

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Green.

Ford.

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Parks.

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Limpy.

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Please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Attention, salute.

Pledge.

I'm allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it is.

One nation under God.

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I just didn't want it to be turned sideways and try to set it up.

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General Council Business for a presentation and discussion of the new municipal service building project status.

Charlie Bright.

So just real quick, I want to thank the council members for uh agreeing to hold a special meeting so we could focus specifically on where we are with regard to the new municipal services building.

I want to thank uh counselors Ford and Green for their assistance.

Uh they were designated as the liaison to the governing for the governing body for the committee to actually help staff uh to this point.

And so tonight, really I'm gonna turn it over to Charlie and to Shannon because we want to give you an update and get directions from the council with regard to where we're at.

Charlie.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Name's Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering and Construction.

Um I'm gonna pass it over to Shannon Marshall to do a lot of tonight's speaking.

I just want to give you a lot a little bit of background of the process we've had up until this point and kind of where we stand today.

Um as you guys know, we've talked about it um uh previously a little bit.

We first started with a needs assessment space study of how much space does this building really need.

Um, and we went through that with all the departments, all the directors, a lot of other staff input, kind of zeroed into that 60,000 square foot building based off what the needs were.

And then we took that and started going through a lot of schematics.

We've been through, as this process, it's an iteration, we've been through dozens of iterations of what this can look like, and we feel like we're here today because we've really narrowed it in and we're really really close.

But with that being said, it's still not final.

I think there's still probably a few more tweaks to begun, but we're we feel pretty confident of where we're standing today.

Um so that was the goal is to show you where we are today and get some feedback from you.

I want to point out one thing that we've uh maybe been attention point as we design this has really been what kind of image are we trying to create um as part of a new municipal services building down there on the south side of the bay uh downtown.

Um today, that south side doesn't feel really like a main street.

You know, it's it's it's main street, but it's not the Rose District Main Street feel.

And so one of the design parameters here of this building has been do we design it like it's a suburban city hall where you just pull up and it's convenience everything, or do we design it like a main street city hall?

And so we've really geared towards going towards that main street city hall to where we're trying to create walkability on Main Street itself.

So you see people coming in and out of the front doors on Main Street, you see people in and out walking and everything else, parking is hidden in the back, and the the goal is that this is that trigger point that creates and helps some of the other development where we have a more walkability main street on that side of Main Street as well, and not just in the Rose District itself.

So that kind of helped steer how some of the design parameters went, is keeping that goal in mind of the bigger picture of what we're trying to create there.

Um so with that, I'm gonna pass it over to Shannon.

She's gonna sit over here at the table if that's all right, because she's gonna have control of the mouse so she can zoom in a little bit on the layouts and maybe talk in particular about the floor plans.

Um and she'll take you through the design that we've been working on.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Shandon Marshall, Special Projects Division Manager with Engineering and Construction, and thank you for your time today to talk about a fantastic project.

This is one of the first projects I got the privilege to work on.

Um and it's been a fantastic project overall, especially with the great team.

I do want to note that our architect design team Narrate is here with us tonight, as well as our construction manager Napoltz.

Both of them have been great partners and have put in a ton of hours already.