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COMMUNITY CENTER
COMMITTEE
August 12, 2008
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Rich Wagner called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. in Council Chambers
located on the first floor of the City Hall, 25 W. Main Street, Auburn, Washington.
Committee members present were: Chair Rich Wagner, Vice Chair Lynn
Norman, Member Sue Singer. Also present were Building Division Manager Jim
Tinner, Principal Planner Jeff Dixon, Project/Construction Manager Steven
Burke, City Engineer/Assistant PW Director Dennis Selle, Recreation Manager
Brian Petty, Recreation Specialist Program Manager Julie Brewer, Employee
Relations/Compensation Manager John Fletcher, Risk Manager Rob Roscoe,
Financial Planning Manager Karen Jester, and Human Resources Assistant
Cheryl Abner.
Also in attendance were:
Tom Bates, BLRB
Ron Harpel, BLRB
Mark Purlsey, Boys & Girls Club
Sarah Rollins, Sparling
Steve Goegebuer, Sparling
Dave Nason, AHBL
Lorraine Pai, TRA
No audience members in attendance.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. Vice Chair Norman made a motion to approve the minutes of the May 12,
2008 and June 5, 2008 meetings. Member Singer seconded.
B. Minutes of the June 27, 2008, meeting was amended to read Notes, there
being no quorum.
DISCUSSION
Ron Harpel of BLRB opened the meeting with introductions of the architects
working on the design of the Community Center and Gymnasium. Sarah Rollins
of Sparling discussed sound control, Steve Goegebuer of Sparling discussed
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sound enhancement, David Nason of AHBL covered street improvements and
Lorraine Pai discussed landscape. Visual arts were used to walk the Committee
through the various phases of the design projects. Highlights of the discussions
were:
a. The ceiling panel for the Community Center will be metal, symbolic of two
rivers running together. Metal is more contemporary and serves as a
contrasting element to the wood and veneer. There will be acoustical
materials on the walls above the bookcases and up to the clouds. BLRB is
coordinating where that is going to be.
b. There are three meeting rooms separated by three removable walls.
Recommends putting acoustic wall panels on the fixed walls on the end.
When the two removable walls are closed, there will be three hard walls.
Each of the spaces has its own sound system. When divided walls are
closed, each room can operate independently. Each space has its own
wireless microphone system. There will be some loudspeakers.
c. There was discussion on how to keep sounds out of the big room coming
from the kitchen area. BLRB is to look into the door placement in the kitchen
with the possibility of moving it as far up as possible instead of at the bottom,
to allow for a larger expansive wall in which to utilize.
d. It was suggested putting in conduits at each end of the gym in the event
scoreboards are installed at a later date.
e. Dave Nason went over the traditional storm system base plan being worked
on now. The landscape islands in the center of the big parking areas have
rain gardens where the rain water in the parking lot is like a sheet flow on the
surface into the rain gardens. Where there are no large islands in the middle,
rain gardens will be scattered around the building. They will be working with
Auburn's Engineering Department so BLRB can come up with a design for a
permeable pavement system. It was the consensus of the Committee that
permeable concrete pavement should be used if no expensive maintenance
equipment would have to be purchased and if the costs/benefits of it compare
favorably with conventional pavement. It is lighter colored, looks and feels
better. It offers a safer pedestrian walking surface because ice does not form
on it like regular pavements. We want to also protect the geo-thermal
building heating and cooling system idea with any proposed pavement
design.
f. It was the consensus of the Committee to align the Community Center
driveway with the library parking lot driveway. There will be an impact to a
couple of trees and parking stalls.
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g. The landscaping along 12th Avenue was discussed. This being the base of
the Community Center, maintaining as open a landscape as possible is
desired. There is a mix of evergreen and citrus trees. It was recommended
not using evergreen trees. Would like to save the existing cherry trees but will
need an arborist to see how viable they are. The Committee needs to find out
if those are the trees gifted to the park from our Sister city. It was suggested
adding the cherry trees, if they can be saved, along the rest of 12th Avenue
keeping the height 18" or 3 ft. maximum to allow visibility from the street as
well as the sidewalk into the Center. It was recommended having lighting in
the shrubs to enhance what is already planted. The existing sidewalk is in
poor shape. Recommends closing that area of the sidewalk and extend it to a
total of 10 ft. There are no code requirements to improve the sidewalk.
h. The SEPA document draft for the traffic analysis is complete. Application for
SEPA will be made next week. A commissioning agent will be on board
within the next two weeks. The commission consultant will work with BLRB
during design to make sure design and contract documents are written
appropriately to describe how the building system is going to be
commissioned before occupancy. Commissioning is required by LEED. For
LEED certification, it has to be an independent person hired by the City.
Due to budget cuts, it was recommended not to extend the contract of the
consultant doing the analysis of the 12th & M Street intersection at this time.
There were other items on the agenda for discussion but due to time constraints, the
Committee was unable cover all topics on the agenda. Chair Wagner called for another
meeting in two weeks to conclude the items for discussion.
IV. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 3:35 p.m.
APPROVED THE -f? ( DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2008.
Rich Wagner, Chair Cheryl bner, Secretary
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