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6 • 1 council Selects Buetow Associates as Architect to Do St. Anthony Village 2 Community Center Facility Analysis 3 Three architectural firms were interviewed by the Council during a 4 special November 1st workshop held to receive proposals from firms 5 _ interested in doing the above study. Mr. Childs reported Councilmembers 6 Ranallo and Marks had not been able to attend that work session and the 7 final selection had been delayed until this meeting when at least a 8 Council quorum would be present. He reiterated that the City perceived 9 a necessity to have a study done which at the very least would indicate 10 how space should be configurated in the Center now that the City owns it the building. The study would also need to address a change in 12 appearance from a school building to a municipal community center as 13 well as changes in the heating and cooling systems for the building. 14 Mayor Sundland indicated his first choice would be Buetow Associates not 15 only because their $3,500 proposal had been so much less than either the 16 $7,500 proposal from Lindberg Pierce, Inc. or $5,800 from Pfister 17 Architects, but also because Buetow is a Roseville firm whose President, 18 Tom Dunwell, is very active on several service organizations in this 19 area which should give him a little more insight into just what the City 20 needed to know before attempting to convert the building into a workable 21 administration space as well as a center which can also be used by the 22 general public. The Mayor said he wouldn't want to "put words in the 23 absent Councilmember Marks' mouth" , but a conversation he had with him 24 at City Hall before he went out of town led the Mayor to conclude 25 Councilmember Marks would vote the same way if he were present that 26 evening. 27 Councilmember Makowske reported receiving two calls from Peter Pfister 28 that afternoon and evening and said he had told her he had also called 29 the City Manager late that afternoon to promote his own firm's 30 selection. She said she had been fairly comfortable with both the 31 Pfister and Buetow November 1st presentations for different reasons. 32 The Councilmember said she thought the reason Mr. Pfister had decided 33 to only call her might have been because he had seen her eyes light up 34 when she had seen some of the creative work his firm had done on other 35 buildings. She indicated she had told Mr. Pfister she was concerned 36 that his firm might not have had the experience of working with City 37 Councils as other architects, which would be required on this project. 38 The Councilmember said Mr. Pfister had called her that day to report his 39 firm had been selected by Minneapolis to replace another architectural 40 firm on the Timber Wolves building. She said her interest in the firm 41 had been heightened when she learned one of the reasons Minneapolis had 42 chosen Pfister had been the firm's ability to work with other architects 43 to sell the project to the public, which would also be required for the 44 City project. Councilmember Makowske said when she questioned the 45 firm's ability to handle both projects at the same time, Mr. Pfister had 46 told her the anticipated the Timber Wolves project to only take from two 47 to four weeks which would free him and another of the firm's principals, 48 Mr. Sexto, to give their full attention to the City study. The 49 Councilmember indicated she had been able to draw similarities between