Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-27-2008CITY OF BURN WASHINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER COMMITTEE March 27, 2008 MINUTES CALL TO ORDER Chair Rich Wagner called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. in Council Chambers located on the first floor of Auburn City Hall, 25 West Main Street, Auburn, Washington. Committee members present were: Chair Rich Wagner, Vice Chair Lynn Norman, Member Sue Singer. Also present were Human Resources Director Brenda Heineman, Cultural Arts Specialist Megan Myers, Cultural Arts Manager Laurie Rose, Human Resources Assistant Cheryl Abner. Ron Harpel, BLRB Architects Scott Evans, Tom Rengstorf & Associates Heather Dwyer, 4Culture Tanya Rottle, Arts Commission Pat Gallagher, Arts Commission Patricia Judd, Arts Commission Nancy Colson, Arts Commission Pam Smith, Arts Advocate No audience members in attendance. APPROVAL OF MINUTES A. Chair Wagner made a correction to the minutes to include in a sentence `sustainable design'. Vice Chair Lynn Norman made a motion to approve minutes with correction from the March 27, 2008, meeting. Member Sue Singer seconded. Motion carried unanimously. 3-0. DISCUSSION A. Call for qualified artists, how to advertised, when to advertise? Discussion was centered on the time needed to start the artist selection. Heather Dwyer is to prepare an invitational call for artists which should take about a week. The whole selection process takes about a month. A panel to select a public artist to join the design team will consist of the Community Center Committee and a couple of Arts Commissioners, as well as a couple of general artists from the community. Chair Wagner Page 1 Community Center Committee Minutes March 27, 2008 recommended asking a member of the Arts Committee from Gig Harbor and Federal Way to spend some time with our Committee. B. Timing - critical decisions. A schematic design is to be completed in May by BLRB. BLRB will continue to design through the summer. An artist will be selected in May. The job will be bid in January. Completion should be done by October 1 to go into RFQ. C. Project schedule. Discussion was centered on potential opportunity for public art related to this project. Heather Dwyer from 4Culture is to write the scope for what is essentially the RFQ. Brenda will oversee the inclusion of appropriate schedule commitments in the scope of work. The question was asked if art was wanted for both buildings or at one. Options for the gym are different. If art that is currently in place is going to be moved, it will incur expense. It is anticipated that R. Neimi piece, "You Are Here," can be protected from construction activities so that it will not need to be moved. The Committee favored concentrating the art funding at the Community Center rather than the Gym/Tween/Teen Center. This is primarily because on-going discussions about how the Tween/Teen Center will look, especially if expanded in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club which would not finalize until this summer, make it difficult to integrate artwork into it at this time. D. Review and discuss project design themes. The committee discussed why the Community Center is being built, the history of Auburn and what the committee wants the artist to convey. It is important for the artist to understand that Auburn is a very unpretentious community. It is a community of hardworking people, people putting their work ethic to work and wanting to help other community members. People come together to get the job done. The Friendship Materials Storage Room was discussed. The focus is on ethnic groups and the changing population in the city. This will hopefully get people use to coming to a central place. This Room would be a start toward that. Page 2 Community Center Committee Minutes March 27, 2008 IV. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m. IZA APPROVED THE J G?/ DAY OFD 2008. Rich Wagner, Chair 0'h14z4x/1 Cheryl Abner, ecretary Page 3