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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, Ju1y 16, 2012 <br />Page 17 <br />Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. <br />Mr. Marquardt has no doubts that Mr. McKnight is qualified and has no problem with the <br />Village using his services. I just don't believe that we need to appoint him as the <br />Village architect. It is not necessary in my opinion to have a Village architect. We can use <br />his services by contract or some other means. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, I will just repeat what I said before. I think this is a practical solution <br />to kind of an historic problem we have had a lot of times in articulating and visualizing <br />some of the projects. Candidly, we probably have going forward a lot of the kinds of <br />landscaping treatments that I think really are important to the Village as whole. <br />Many of the big projects that we have accomplished, either in their own kind of scheme of <br />things; if you look at street repairs, those are pretty straightforward. But it's a lot of the <br />landscaping details, the elements coming back. For example, when we re-routed Raleigh <br />Drive, we had talked to residents at the time, the homeowners, that it would be nice to have <br />some kind of park-like treatment there. Once we did the paving, we have had one resident <br />who lives on a circle and he has gotten together with a few other residents where they are <br />looking at doing some treatments on a couple of the cul de sacs but that still leaves open <br />the entryway by Heinen's and also the sort of pocket part that we have created right at Beta <br />and Wilson Mills. That's just to name one. <br />We have a trail system that is going in. We have all of our different park features and I just <br />think that from the Village's standpoint, having somebody that we can pick up the phone, <br />do an e-mail, do a pretty quick sketch and be able to pull our Engineer, our Village <br />Architect, because this is a Landscape Architect, not an Architect, and really the other <br />people involved, our Service Department. There are a lot of times where our Service <br />Departrnent is going out and dealing with trees and other kinds of plantings. We have a <br />wetland area. The list goes on and on. These are all amenities and appointments to the <br />Village for the 150 plus acres that we now own, common areas for the community. I think <br />that the quality of work, the consistency, is something that it behooves us to be able to do <br />this. Other than that, I am not sure what the debate would be. This is a way for us to be <br />able to have someone on board and gives us expertise and insight that we can use. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, does anybody have any other comments to add? <br />Mr. Delguyd stated, I guess I still struggle with the difference between, I don't see a <br />problem just picking up the phone and calling them and asking them to do it on a case by <br />case basis. I understand there are quite a few projects you named and all of them are viable. <br />We have already seen plans for the property across the street. We have seen sketches to go <br />on for the amphitheatre. Those are two, correct me if I am wrong, I would actually like to <br />know this, but those are the two main projects we have in front of us for the foreseeable <br />future, correct? There could be things that pop up, but when they pop up, I would say that <br />I don't have a problem then contracting as needed. We have just passed the increased <br />spending limit to $5,000. 1 struggle for the need for both.