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Council Minutes 11/6/2002 side. Buffering for the residents will include trees and natural vegetation and landscaping. Library signs will be located on Lorain Road and Butternut Ridge. The Oxcart marker will be relocated in the green area by the plaza. Evergreens will be planted to shield the salt dome site in back of City Hall. There will be new sidewalks on Lorain Road with brickscapes. The drainage will consist of a detannage basin which will have no standing water and will be a sloping grade. This was recommended by EPA due to the quality of the storm water. Lights will be lantern-style with cutoffs, complete shades on the sides of the neighbors. A majority of the building will have face brick and siding in the cornice azea and will have an asphalt shingle roof which will give the appearance of a slate roof. The windows and the doors aze designed to allow as much as light as possible into the library. Some doors aze functional and some are not. The doors to the children's gazden and the story room are operational. The windows are permanently closed. The dormers along the roof azea are not used to permit light into the building. The trash enclosure, generator and the transformer will be behind the brick enclosure. The estimated cost of the gazebo was estimated to be $30,000. Some of the boards and commissions had made a recommendation to eliminate the gazebo and have gardens instead. The library will be responsible for the grounds maintenance of the garden and the trees. If a gazebo was to be built, the county would also do the maintenance on the gazebo. The choice of a gazden or a gazebo is up to city and Council. The construction cost estimate listed one flag pole at $10,000. However, it should be $10,000 for the cost of four flag poles. Quite a discussion ensued in regazd to the cost of the flag poles, which includes the cost of the installation and the hazdwaze. On entering the building, there will be a vestibule main lobby and a book return. On the left side of the lobby is a large meeting room and also a small meeting room. The large meeting room will hold approximately 128 people. The rooms aze for non-profit organizations, with no charge for use during business hours. Provisions for the community rooms to be locked off from the rest of the building have been made. On the right side of the lobby is the staff azea: the work area for the staff people, staff rooms, staff conference room, branch manager's room, staff restrooms, lounge/break azea and storage room. The building is in a round configuration. The azeas include a central reading azea with a water feature. Next is the children's department and the story room. This is near the non- fiction collection and then next is the business area, quiet study rooms and audio-visual collection. There will be a teen area with their own materials, a fiction collection and reading azea. The computers aze furnished by the library. Wireless web tables will be used, which is a new feature. The total area of the building is 36,000 squaze feet, 30,000 on the first floor and 6,000 in the basement which is used for storage. The geothermal lines will go through the basement and the question came up as to the fact that the geothermal at a cost of $175,000 had not been decided upon yet. Spice Costantino claimed they were advised to design the building for the geothermal. After the testing of the soil and a price comparison of the HVAC and geothermal, Council was supposed to make the choice of which method was to be used. However, Council did not get any information on that. Council is waiting for the comparisons as to what the geothermal would cost as compazed to natural gas and electricity. The final conclusion was that, although Council had requested a comparison of the systems, the team consisting of the city, the library and the architect made the decision to design the building for the geothermal unit. The carpet will have a circular design. There will be wood and gray 9