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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Page 4 with them to tell them they would probably save money if we do this together. The school did pay for the engineering side of their work. Alternate 1 is their side of the site improvements. We have a meeting with theirs next Wednesday; September 16th; to go over whether or not they want to accept - Mayor Rinker stated, that meeting is the School Board meeting. I will be attending that with Diane and you. Mr. Parker continued, if that's not approved, just so everyone knows, we are not going to just have a hard line cut and no improvements happen to our site. The base bid included sealcoating and not a full asphalt but basically patching their existing asphalt to make it a seamless transition. Alternate 1 included a significant amount of curbing and drop off lane to help their site. Just to be clear, everything with Alternate 1, the school's site, is for them to snake. Council President Marrie asked, any further discussion? Mayor Rinker stated, we have gone through extensive, Council's aware of it, but for the record it's important to recap a few things especially in light of the fact that we are looking at not an insignificant change in what ultimately is the budget that Council had been looking at at the earlier part of this year that would require amendment for this project. Historically, this was a salt shed built post-War. Harry Truman was in office when Center School was built. The facility that is today's Community Room, I think everyone who knows anything about activities in the Village knows that the Community Room has just been an incredible workhorse. We have used that term before. What once was a salt shed, we had all Village facilities concentrated there. We still had a gas station where the gazebo now sits. As time has marched on and things have changed, we have had various buildings back from those days that have been cycled, recycled, re-recycled and the Community Room is no exception. We were all very mindful of the fact that the size of it, the location of it, have always made sense in terms of what we do within the Village and there's kind of a nice low profile aspect to it that I think resonates with most of us that is sort of symbolic of the Village, that we can do a lot but we don't have to be extravagant. But the challenge we face with this is over time that whole site now has been pretty well cleared but for this building. It may now have a focal point, a town center, in this Northwest Quadrant. In the meantime, you know that the school has struggled with just how to address changes with the Center School property. Over the years, we have had our property in the middle of a parking lot and it's almost been informal, if not altogether informal, reciprocal parking between the two and yet we still have traffic circulation issues that have been complex. The other part of this project is once we decided that we really could do a new building, were we going to be put it in the same spot? Could we, as we have chosen to do, push it into a location where it really is the community's room. It's more home-like. It's going to have a front yard, a side yard, and by doing that we are able to open up the parking field more directly between the two structures as the space in-between. So, aesthetically, parking ~~~ 1