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For Joint Policy Board Meeting of Aprii 22,1998 MEMO TO: THE MARION COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS THE SALEM AREA TRANSIT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM: BILLY WASSON " ROJECT COORDINATOR, MARIOM COUNTY JOHN WHITTINGTON PROJECT COORDINATOR, SALEM AREA TRANSIT SUBJECT: RECOMMENDATION RE: COURTHOUSE SQUARE Issue Shail the joint Boards authorize staff to move fonward with the Courthouse Square project, speafically to take the steps necessary to proceed to design development and c:onstruction drawings and documentation? Backqround The Courthouse Square project has been under intensive review of the Special Project Oversight Committee for the past four months. The comrYi~tee's assignment was to determine if the project should move forward to the next stage of development, and to make recommendations to the policy boards relative to this question. The committee has completed its charge, and has forwarded a repo~ The county and transit project coordinators have served as staff for the oversight committee, and we have staff recommendations to forward to the policy bodies as well, in keeping with the committee's report. Facts and Findinqs 1. We have received the oversight committee's final report. It is what staff would call a consensual report (our phrase, not the committee's). In beginning discussions on the issue of formulating a committee recommendation, Judge Peterson went around the table to ask each member where he or she stood on the question of whether the project should proceed. Four membets said, with various qual'fications, that the project should proceed to the final design and bidding stage of developmerrt. One member said he was not comfortable, with the information that was available, recommending moving ahead at this point in time. And one member said that he did not~ fee! that the project should move ahead, for various reasons. It appeared to staff that the purpose of the committee discussion refeRed to above was to determine what process they would use to proceed to the development of a recommendation and final report to the poiicy boards. They decided that another meeting would be needed to discuss the issues and conclude their report.