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Courthouse Square Special Project Oversite Committee <br />` Apri115, 1998 Meeting Summary <br />Present: Justice Peterson, Kathy Keene, Jerry Vessello, Maynazd Hammer, John <br />McMillan, Randy Compton <br />Staff/Citizens: Billy Wasson, John Whittington, Randy Franke, Marcia Kelly, Mazk <br />Wieprecht, RG. Andersen-Wyckoff, Randy Curtis, Ben Fetherston, Bob <br />Newton, Frank Dunn, Clarence Pugh, Glen Rader, Matt Graber, Craig <br />Harris, Mike Ryan <br />Agenda: SPOC Work Session <br />1. Work Session <br />The committee agreed to use the draft written by John McMillan to formulate their written <br />response to the Boazds. Each paragraph was reviewed and reworded as agreed upon by the <br />members. The following is the draft in regular font, with the changes printed in italics: <br />~ Final Report, Special Project Oversight Committee (Courthouse Square) <br />Manon County commissioners and the directors of the Salem Area Mass Transit District <br />established the committee in December, 1997, "to act in an advisory role overseeing all major <br />policy decisions related to the continued development, design, and fmancing of the Courthouse <br />Square projecY'. The project calls for construction of a bus terminal and county and transit <br />offices on 80 percent of the block in downtown Salem bounded by Church, High, Chemeketa, and <br />Court streets. <br />The committee has seen its role more narrowly. We decline to make a judgement on <br />whether the Courthouse Square project should be constructed. Four of our six members The <br />majority of the committee recommend only that the project go to its next stage: Final design at a <br />cost estimated by county executives at $750,000 to $1 million. Only when that design is <br />completed, rigorously and independentl,y analyzed, and perhaps modified will elected officials and <br />the public be able to assess the costs and probable effects on public service, the committee <br />unanimously believes. <br />, , <br />, <br />~.t~K ~ ~ . Following the process of final <br />design and evaluation, the Marion county commissioners and the transit boards should decide <br />whether to proceed to the process of seeking construction bids. <br />~ , <br />