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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 01:26:42 -0400, David Hiles wrote:</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >3) What will town residents gain from spending $500,000 on an addition</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >to the Riverdale Municipal Center? This was noted as item E under New</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >Funding Requests.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> ></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >Councilperson Donaldson said that the addition will go on the second</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >floor above the video room and conference room. The addition will</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >provide more archival storage space and a meeting room dedicated to</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >the council. The meeting room on the first floor is fully booked. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >Another meeting room for the council's use is needed.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Item E is for two buildings.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> $300,000 is earmarked for Town Hall expansion, and </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> $200,000 is earmarked as seed money to upgrade the Riverdale </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Park Community Center Building. The intent is to use this $200,000</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> as seed money and shoot for matching grants.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The Town Hall building addition is not a 2nd floor addition.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> A review of the building showed that the foundation was not</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> adequate to support a 2nd story, and thus building a 2nd floor</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> would be too expensive as the foundations would have to </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> be replaced. Instead, the town will look at additions to the </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> back and/or the front of the building.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The exact use of the new space is not yet determined. We will go</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> thru a design and review process. So far, we have a basic budget</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> figured on an estimate of what it would cost to build over the</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> available square footage in the front and rear of the building.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> More space is needed. The archive storage areas are full and more</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> storage area is badly needed for normal record keeping. We will</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> be looking at adding office space and possibly restoring the</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> temporary office space back into a kitchen area. There is talk of</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> finding a small amount of office space that council members could</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> share and maybe another meeting room. At this point, this is all</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> just possibilities. There is lots more work to do. The need is</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> clear and real. We have determined what is practical to do to the</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> building, and have allocated a budget to get it done. The next </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> step is to get serious with design and use.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> -Rob</FONT></div>
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