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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 7 south. The northern room would be a little smaller. You could have an event in there and people can go outside. Similarly on the south side, ditto. You are coming out on the lawn. The basic idea is try to look at flexible ways that can work in one or a few pieces. Q: How would the ceiling heights be in comparison to the existing facility? Along with that, what kind of finishes? A: As far as the ceiling height goes, it is going to be much easier for us to get higher ceiling heights. Q: 10 feet? A: We are thinking like 12-14 for the main space, but maybe 10 throughout. Q: What is the existing?~ A: 9 %Z maybe 10 to the existing. As far as finishes go, both plans can easily have the same finishes. When we did the price comparisons, we looked at that. Q: Upper scale or basic? A: Honestly, we have not gotten that far. It's tough to say what's upscale. Mayor: The idea is we don't need to go over the top. We don't need the extravagant. A hearty board can be used for a surface as opposed to wood or cedar. Something durable. The goal would be that if we are going to invest more dollars in this, we want to do an investment that is going to stand the test of time. By building new, the chances are greater that you can put good quality in without being extravagant and then you have something that is going to wear well for a longer period of time so that it is lower overhead over time. A: The other thing nice about the new construction is that we can address energy efficiency in building the walls with the new science and technology we have whereas the existing building has siding which is actually on brick. There are some difficulties there when you start looking at where things should go. If we just go and plat it on the outside, we may actually be moving the dewpoints in the wall. There could be extra costs to do it correctly. Q: As active as the women's organizations and other organizations are, we need storage. There doesn't seem to be very much storage on this. Ladies have a lot of treasures like our coffee pots and things like that. A: Ron shared that with us. We understand that part. The part of providing the programming required is the next step. If we are to go with new or renovate the existing, we have to solve both those problems.