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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Page 5 will be screened much better than even today. We have done our traffic study. By changing the curb cut flow, we think this will greatly improve the safety of the bus traffic especially and the connectivity. When parents come to pick up kids and you have buses coming through there, they still have to cue up right by that front door area. This parking field and part of the last component to be discussed, is designed ~ to make pedestrian movements not as conflicted with the traffic movement in there. At the end of the day, we are making a facility's improvement not only for Village purposes for a Community Rooin use but also for Center School which obviously is another community facility that we need to pay attention to. Out of all of this, we have a building that committee members will agree because we have vetted the finishes, the materials, the square footage, the layouts and we have heard from just about every quarter for people's likes and dislikes for kitchen, concession area, meeting rooms. This has been very very thoroughly discussed by a lot of players that have a lot of hands-on experience dealing with it. The impetus for this really began in Council with a desire to make the Community Room space one that would endure for a long time, be of good quality, be very very functional, and I think we would all agree in all respects it's going to be a much better site utilization than we have ever had before, a larger structure but nothing over top, but to do a quality job and one that's going to be durable. This is a good project. We had asked around about Seitz Building. I remember the name. It rang a bell with me. On the Metroparks, the West Creek project we did in Parma, we used Seitz on construction. Sean McDermott, who was our Chief Project Engineer, had nothing but rave reviews. He said they are of high integrity and high skill. When they say they want to get on the job and get it done, they want to be able to have the site under control to be weatherproofed in advance of winter. So time really is of the essence. We have to deal with keeping the current Community Room open which is challenging for site operation and site management and we have to be able to time the hard construction when Center School is in recess. There are a lot of variables this project has taken into account, separate and apart from the fact that we are looking at the actual structure and site layout. TDA, Ed Parker, has done a phenomenal job with his colleagues working with all of us. I think this is something we are going to look back on as a very solid decision to go forward with. Thank you. Council President Marrie thanked Mr. Parker. Any other comments or discussion? There were none. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Bid Accepted Expenditure Approved Council President Marrie asked, are there any other matters? There were none. ADJOI~JRNMENT Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Saponaro, made a motion to adjourn.