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For Special Board Meeting of September 2, 1998 Agenda Item # A 1-4 MEMO TO: BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM: R. G. ANDER~~EN~.~VYCKOFF, QrENERAL MANAGER SUBJECT: COURTHOUSE SQUARE Issue Shall the Board of Directors: 1. Approve the Courthouse Square transit design development plans; 2. Authorize staff to proceed with construction drawings, specifications, and bids for Courthouse Square; and, 3. Authorize staff to file the final grant application with FTA? Back~rouud Marion County and Salem Area Transit staff have, in accordance with the prior direction of the respective Boards, completed the design development phase of the planning for Courthouse Square. Accordingly, cost estimates have been prepared boy an indepcndent consultant on the basis of the design development plans and those costs have becn incorporated into a revised budget (to be handed out at the meeting~ for the transit portion of the project. If it is the Board's desire to continue with the Courthouse Square project as delineated by the design development plans and the current cost estixnates, the Board will need to autharize staff to proceed with the next phase, which is to complete the construction drawings and specifications and place the project for bid. Also, in accordance with the process and procedures previously agreed upon between FTA and the District, the District must now file its final grant application with FTA establishing its final design and budget for the project, based on the design development plans and the consultants estimates. Facts and Findin~s A. Approval of Courthouse Square Traasit Design Development Plans 1. The Board of Directors, following the favora.ble recommendation of the Courthouse Square Special Oversight Committee (SPOC), authorized the staff to complete the design development plans for the proposed project. In doing so, the Board also approved the ~eneral design and site layout brought forth in the concept designs and the preliminary design development plans. Though the SPOC recomrnendation was favorable to proceeding with the plans through the bid process, staff asked the Board only for authorization to proceed through the design development phase prior to seeking additional autharization to proceed to the conshuction drawing and bid phase. The Board's Courthouse Square sub-committee, the Board appointed Citizen Advisory Committee, and staff, are satisfied that the design development