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City Council Minutes .August 13, 2018 Page 5 have a placeholder of $1.5 million for a senior center and to figure out the details after the vote. Councilmember Wagner stated she didn't think it was fair to hear the change in details 35 minutes ago and the drawings presented last week for the multi-purpose facility weren't detailed enough, so it was hard for her to support it. She said if she had to choose A or B, she would choose the lower dollar figure but it wasn't that simple after hearing from the seniors tonight. She asked if it was worth paying the $100,000 fee to have plans drawn up by 292 Group and RJM Construction to provide the seniors more detailed plans. Councilmember Westgaard stated the architect fees don't add up that fast but the construction document fees add up. He asked if Councilmember Wagner would be willing to lead a group to meet with seniors in the next few weeks to receive their priorities, and along with Tom Betti, 292 Design Group and Brian Recker with RJM Construction draw up plans and schematics to illustrate their needs and the sense of community desired by the user group. He stated if that's wasn't supported by the voters, then he suggested the $1.5 converts back to the updating their current facility. Councilmember Wagner indicated she would be happy to do it. Councilmember Westgaard stated the space decisions don't have to be completely solved by the end of September but can be worked on up until Election Day, allowing the seniors to have an amended set of plans they can agree to and get behind. Mayor Dietz asked if the literature state $1.5 million spent either at the multipurpose center or the current facility. Councilmember Westgaard stated the budget is $1.5 million dollars and what they saw from RJM was a small space appended onto the activity center building. He stated the senior community space wasn't even considered in 2017 when laying out the multipurpose facility. He said they have around two and half months to prepare and while he doesn't want to speak on behalf of Tom Betti and Brian Recker, he feels confident that they would be willing to meet with them to provide something the community can get behind. He suggested that staff hold off on membership and programming activities and just talk about visualization of space to find common ground. He stated if they can't see themselves at the center, they consider how they'll renovate the space at the Activity Center. Mayor Dietz stated we may be setting ourselves up to fail the referendum as even if the seniors vote no, the council would automatically keep them at the senior center. Councilmember Westgaard stated it's one of those things that doesn't make sense to him but it really is about representing the people that voted for them, and why aren't they considering keeping them at the activity center if they are screaming to stay there. P1IIRI1 B1 INATUR�