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11/ MEMO <br /> To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator <br /> Re: April 21, 1997 Work Session <br /> Date: April 18, 1997 <br /> I do not have much new to report to those of you who were at the meeting with the School Board <br /> on Thursday evening. I am meeting today with Bob Long and the VB Digs group again to go over <br /> the agreement with them. I can report on this Monday evening. I also have a meeting set up with <br /> Children's Home Society for Tuesday afternoon to try to square them away, and I will likely be <br /> setting up a meeting with Community Education next week to do the same with them. So far I have <br /> not gotten to a comfort level to recommend to the Mayor to sign the architect's agreement, although <br /> I expect to do something by Monday. I did visit the St. Anthony Community Center today and visited <br /> with their city manager. Our discussions touched on the same issues we have been facing here in <br /> Mounds View and are the same as Council member Stigney has related. I am concerned that Council <br /> members or members of the community may be developing the impression that somehow the Bel Rae <br /> project will not be comparable to such a project as St. Anthony's, and I am at a loss to reason why. <br /> Their project by the way was financed not too dissimilarly from ours and appears to have had much <br /> 1110 <br /> less community input. While pleased with the building as one would expect there are minor things <br /> they wish they could have done differently. Having had several projects myself, this is always the <br /> case. I also discussed our project with an architect I worked with on a library and a hockey arena in <br /> Benson and am mulling over some arrangements between the architect and a general contractor. As <br /> with every decision on these things there are two sides. Also as a footnote, the architect fees on the <br /> St. Anthony project are about the same as our proposal here. <br /> That's it for now. We will have more on the Bel Rae Monday, but also on possible airport legislation <br /> Geri Evans started. Have a great weekend. <br /> • <br />