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Memo
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DATE: August 9, 2017 TO: ad hoc City Hall Advisory Committee FROM: John Karns, interim city administrator
RE: Another perspective I recently sent an email to employees in both the Community Development building and in City Hall to inform them of your work and the criteria/priorities you have developed as you vet the alternatives for the replacement of City Hall.
I was interested to hear from city employees how they would rank the criteria you developed and invited them to use colored dots to “vote”. A large “ballot” was posted in both buildings and employees were allocated three dots.
I am also interested in how customers of both City Hall and Community Development/Public Works might rank the criteria and will soon post similar ballots in the lobby of both buildings inviting customers to participate in the process. In order of highest to lowest, here are the employee rankings by City Hall employees. 1) Provides consolidated services (within the same building) 2) Provides off-street parking for employees and customers
3) Services are conveniently located (within a short walk) 4) Cost effective (wise use of public money) 5) Outside Hosler Dam inundation zone 6) Retains downtown presence, Preserves historic façade of an existing building. The remaining criteria did not receive any dots:
• Site (location of new building) provides flexibility
• Preserves historic use of existing City Hall (not necessarily current administrative functions)
• Provides parking that can be converted to other uses
• Potential to increase public parking (may accommodate a surface lot or parking structure)
• Located on the Plaza
• Avoids legal cloud relating to current deed
• Construction Impact (on traffic, parking, pedestrians, businesses, residences)
Here are the employee rankings, highest to lowest, by Community Development/Public Works employees. 1) Provides off-street parking for employees and customers
2) Retains downtown presence 3) Site location provides flexibility, Services are conveniently located (within a short walk), Outside Hosler Dam inundation zone (each received the same number of dots)
4) Preserves historic use of City Hall, Provides consolidated services (within same building), Potential to increase public parking (may accommodate a surface lot or parking structure) (each received the same number of dots) 5) Acceptable to voters, Preserves historic façade (each received the same number of dots) 6) Cost effective (wise use of public money)
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The remaining criteria did not receive any dots:
• Located on Plaza
• Avoids legal cloud relating to current deed
• Construction impact (on traffic, parking, pedestrians, businesses, residences) Obviously, this is simply a snapshot of the sentiments of city employees in both buildings but I think it offers an interesting and different perspective. I hope to have the “ballots” posted for customers in the next couple of days and will forward the ranking results
to you soon. Thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration of this important issue.
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