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Meridian City Pre-Council Meetina
April 3, 2007
The Meridian City Pre-Council meeting was called to order at 5:30 P.M. on
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 by Vice-President Charlie Rountree.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird, David Zaremba, Charlie
Rountree and Joe Borton.
Members Absent: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Joe Borton.
Staff Present: Bill Nary and Will Berg.
Item 1.
Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X David Zaremba 0 Joe Borton (arrived at 5:46)
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
o Mayor Tammy de Weerd (arrived at 5:32)
Item 2.
Adoption of the Agenda:
Bird: Mr. Vice-President.
Rountree: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we adopt the agenda as published - the revised agenda as of
4/2/07.
Rountree: I have a motion. Do I have a second?
Zaremba: Second.
Rountree: Okay it has been moved and seconded to adopt the revised agenda.
All in favor.
THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED.
Bird: Mr. Vice-President.
Rountree: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we go into Executive Session as per Idaho State Code 67-
2345(1 )(a)(b) and (c).
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Zaremba: Second.
Rountree: I have a motion and a second.
Roll Call Vote: Bird, aye; Zaremba, aye; Rountree, aye; and Borton is absent.
Nary: And the Mayor is present.
THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED.
Bird: Please note that she showed up at 5:32 P.M.
Item 3.
Executive Session 67-2345 Executive Session per Idaho State
Code 67-2345(1)(a) - (to consider hiring a public officer, employee,
staff member or individual agent, not to include. This paragraph
does not apply to filling a vacancy in an elective office): and per
Idaho State Code 67-2345(1)(b) - (to consider the evaluation,
dismissal or disciplining of, or to hear complaints or charges
brought against, a public officer, employee, staff member or
individual agent, or public school student) and per Idaho State
Code 67-2345(1)(c) - (to conduct deliberations concerning labor
negotiations or to acquire an interest in real property, which is not
owned by a public agency):
EXECUTIVE SESSION:
Borton: I would entertain a motion to come out of Executive Session.
Rountree: So moved.
Bird: Second.
Borton: It has been moved and seconded to come out of Executive Session. All
in favor say aye.
ALL AYES. MOTION CARRIED.
Item 4.
Update of the New City Hall Project and Presentation of
Interior Color Scheme by Lombard-Conrad Architect:
Bird: Do we need to be down there or can we see okay here?
Simmons: We would like to have you come down here. Madame Mayor and
Members of the Council, Steve Simmons with Lombard-Conrad Architects,
Boise, Idaho. We have come before you tonight to bring you an update with the
interior color scheme for the new City Hall project. There has been a lot of work
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with me and the rest of the staff and Department Heads -- at least this point in
our presentation we would like you to come down and look at the pallet and then
Elizabeth and (inaudible) our interior designers can explain it better to you.
There are a couple of options for you to look at. What we would like tonight is to
leave with a consensus on the pallet that it is acceptable; if we need to tweak a
few things and come back before you, we certainly can do that as long as we do
it in a fairly short timeframe. We have also met with the departments and looked
at a couple of things, Le., an accent wall behind each reception desk and each
department perhaps, so we have several accent colors that we can show you as
well and get an idea from that so you can - well, we will walk you through that.
So, with that gather around and we will let Elizabeth kick us off.
Henson: I am Elizabeth Henson with LeA and before you see the material finish
selections for the new City Hall. We have got a floor plan over here. Steve can
you push those to the front for me? In all the vestibules coming in on the street,
we have got a walk-on tile, which is a - we have a walk off carpet here, which is
a tile that you will have in each vestibule coming in off of the street to get the dirt
and moisture off of your feet before you enter into the interior materials pallet. In
the main lobby area is this porcelain tile here. It is a larger scale, 18 x 18 inch tile
and that is a porcelain tile, so it is really hard body. There are little if any
maintenance that you have to do it. We can do the grout joint really tight so you
don't get a lot of wear and tear on that. This does meet the co-efficient of friction
requirement for ADA and it is not a polished tile. Do not wax. No finish required.
Then also in the lobby area, we have some elevations here - what you might see
as you come in straight on through to the Council Chambers there where we
have a dark green accent paint for some contrast there. Then we have got some
(inaudible) areas in the ceiling that will have a lighter white color as well as the
lay in ceiling tile in that area and then we have got the general wall color that is a
little bit darker than the rest of the area. So, you have got this mid-tone accent
and this is a typical elevation of the side wall within the front entry lobby.
Simmons: Looking into the Community room, perhaps into the Historical Society
entry doors - because this is a two story space - so you can see kind of how that
would look.
Henson: So, we have got some reveals in the drywall there with some painted
accents. We have got the wood trim, which we are looking at doing a painted
wood base and cherry rail and we have got a couple of different colors of wood-
Bird: Excuse me, are you going curve it or just leave it square like that?
Henson: It would probably be square. We might end of with a little trim piece
here, but typically we just set it right on top of the ceramic tile. Then we have got
the two - you can see in that elevation there that you have got some wood
columns, wood clad columns where we would be looking at a dark and a light
tone wood, which we could playoff using a painted wood trim and cherry rail as I
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mentioned to kind of match that color tone there. We have got some glazing
opportunity there with the windows to bring the glass in. Then going down those
main corridors this porcelain tile will continue down on the first floor corridors
there to kind of allow that to be a continuous area. The restrooms we changed to
this green porcelain tile, which is a little bit smaller. This is actually made out of
all of the scraps, the recycled material in the tile plant, which is kind of nice. I like
to use that when I can. That does have a eoved base for sanitary application in
your restrooms. Then we are looking at a 3 x 6 glazed ceramic tile, just kind of a
matt finish verses the standard super high gloss that you would use. A little bit
more of a classic look there. The walls and wainscot in the public restrooms.
Then you have got a dark accent color above it in portions of that area just for
some contrast. We have got some graffiti resistant toilet partitions that we would
like to introduce with the stainless hardware there. Any questions on those
areas? We are kind of harkening back to the agricultural roots of the city. In the
back of the Council Chambers we have got this wall covering and you can see
this carpet here - it is a carpet tile with a rubber backing, which is really nice
because if you do soil one of them, you can just pop it out and put another one
in. It lays down real fast. You have got - it minimizes the labor required -
(Inaudible discussion)
Simmons: We did a meeting with Will and our visual consultant and he is laying
out what we are going to do (inaudible--).
Henson: Okay, then we have got the carpet tile in the Council Chambers. Also
within the department areas, this is the carpet that you will see throughout the
facility. We have lightened the general wall color within the departments is lighter
as you can see than what we have got in the big lobby with all of your natural
light. So, in the department areas you have got this. We have talked about
doing an accent wall and each area has a little conference room. We could do
an accent-
(Inaudible discussion)
Henson: Okay, yes in the main reception area for each department we have got
four accent colors that we are allowing the departments to select from. Do you
want to go through those (inaudible--)?
(Speaker unknown): Here are some elevations that we sketched up where you
can see just some examples of how those accent colors will look behind the
reception desk. These are the two examples that we have for the reception
desk. This is the typical that we are proposing for most departments; however,
some departments are different sizes and are needing something a little bit
different. So, that is just showing those proposals there. Also, in each
department we have asked them to come up with a picture that is specific to their
department. So, they will come up with some pictures and that will kind of give
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each department a little bit of character. Those pictures will be in a sepia tone for
all departments.
Simmons: Some departments particularly like Finance (inaudible--) some
backup needs or they literally work at the counters, we are trying to - we are
aware that we may have to have some vision glass so they have the ability
(inaudible--) walk off and help somebody if there is an issue. A lot of the
departments (inaudible--) working directly behind the cashier, it is a little bit
harder to put the glazing in that, but you know it is still doable (inaudible--).
(Speaker unknown): These are the laminates that we would be using for that
and then also these two solid surfaces. This is the primary solid surface that we
are proposing; however, in some areas when they are doing a lot of paperwork
right up at that reception counter, it is really hard to go from the white paper to
the dark countertops. So, some departments will have this lighter eountertop. In
the bathrooms these are the - did you talk about that? Okay and the solid
surface that we are proposing for the countertops in the restrooms.
(Inaudible discussion)
Henson: The second floor will have the carpet tile, as we mentioned. So, it is
similar to first floor in that regard. The corridors will include that carpet - that
lobby area when you come off of the elevators on that second floor, we are going
to integrate an accent - this beige accent within that just to kind of create a little
border and kind of identify that zone. That is basically the materials for your
interior finishes.
(Inaudible discussion)
Simmons: We have given a copy of this to Keith to take to the Council to give us
direction on hard offices and who gets hard offices and who doesn't. So, I would
like that back by the end of the week if I could get that so we can kind of put that
to bed. You are welcome to keep another copy as well. If I might add, there are
several - we originally started from a program that was provided (inaudible--).
There were quite a few departments that do have additional offices that I think
are justifiable, above and beyond the program. There are sensitive issues and
things with attorneys, HR and even Planning staff sometimes, but we have
provided some conference rooms and things that allow them to go to those
places. The main intent and (inaudible) and I will leave you with this is that we
are trying to push this building to a LEED certification and day lighting is very
critical to that. When we start putting perimeter offices all over the place, we start
losing that day lighting point and that ability, so everyone was agreeable, all the
departments understood that from the get go that most of those offices are going
to be inboard and we would even have glass in those to get the light to flow. So,
everybody has been pretty much following that model as best we can. In some
cases we weren't just because they flat filled up all of the spaces. So, you will
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see that in your (inaudible) future cubicles and things, but we are turning all that
light in as best we can. Thank you very much for your time.
Borton: Thanks Steve. That brings us to the end of the Pre-Council meeting.
would entertain a motion to adjourn.
Rountree: So moved.
Zaremba: Second.
Borton: It has been moved and seconded to adjourn the Pre-eouncil meeting.
All those in favor say aye.
ALL AYES. MOTION CARRIED.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:59 P.M.
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