Development Team Meeting Notes (96-99)

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Fire and Life Safety: Leonard has done most of the code review to date. The intention is to gp in with a ~ prep.. very shortly to include code note~ to date. Leonard will check with staff to see how th~s is progressing. Signage: T'his may be covered in the Street scape budget. Marion County can do a lot of theit own signage with it's existing computer system. Interface does a lot of our contract work already.'~ A Building sign will be needed and Randy & RG are currently working with a logo consultant on a combi#~ed logo for Courthouse Square, incorporating Marion County and SAT. It is possible that retailers may want their own signs, but it is important that such a nice buildi~g has controlled signage. We need to develop standards around this concern. FOUNDATION DE-WATERING/ENVIRONMENTAL CONCER1~iS: Parking Garage Options (Attachment B): Randy is assuming that if we are able to go down ~ levels w will go with 427 parking spaces and develop a de-watering plan to make it work. Having only' 278 spaces creates major economic problems for the project. The attached option sheet was done mostly ko show the de-watering options, not the number of stalls. Randy is not convinced that we will be as luck~ as the state garage, since we have the environmental concerns. The question came up that if we pump th~ system we would have liability for any contamination that we bring in from outside our boundaries. If vye didn't have to worry about this issue we could build tanks with a pump system and would be covered for $ny 100 year flood. If we have to worry about contamination, then we need to come with an engineering s~lution which does not draw their plume to our site. Then the question arises, if we have to spend an extra $~600,000 to avoid contamination from outside, does the Statesman Journal have some responsibility for at extra cost since it would likely be their contamination we were bringing in. The question remains: do go with a system that avoids any future liability and pay the price now? ~' We probably won't have any results from the testing next week. The drill rig was supposed to;have started today, but had problems with breakdowns. They estimate it will take two days to drill the hol which will be 8" diameter in order to pu11300 gallons per minute. We will be two additional3" obse~ation holes with existing observation holes on the lower level. We can't use the Geotech holes since the~b have already been filled. None of the existing holes were adequate. We have added the cost of the two extia observation wells into the GRI proposal. David Hartwig has revised the contract and it is now in review. ', Kathleen got a call from a Statesman Journal reporter this morning asking about environmen~al issues. Any questions about environmental issues should be referred to our County Counsel. DEQ d Kathleen met and walked the property. We will dig slit trenches down to 15 - 20 inches. We will gr~uate down to get samplings at 5-10-15&20 feet to assess the Statesman Journal effect on the NE corner ofjthe property. The DEQ Representative brought up the potential for having solvents from the Statesman Jo~rnal side. He was concerned about the printing presses any solvents. We are trying to negotiate with the n~ewspaper on speculation information. It is interesting that DEQ is speculating the same thing. DEQ was ~sking about well #7 Statesman Journal property, ie. iYs history, why it was there and have they ever lool~ed at it for solvents? DEQ said they will ask them for samples for solvents and will provide informatio~ back to Kathleen. Once DEQ gets that data it becomes public information and Kathleen can have ac¢ess to it. DEQ pointed out that the sewer line is 15' away and he doesn't know if it infiltrates or exfiltr~tes. He suggested that we look at the sewer line There will be a meeting next week with Tom Linle~, our Environmental Attorney, Randy Franke, Kathleen, and Randy to get a briefing on the envirdnmental issues facing us. We will talk about strategies with our negotiations with Chevron and the Statesma~ Journal. The purpose of the meeting is to put everyone on the same page. Don would like to ask Tom Li~ley about our ~ CH2 6/26 Minutes Page 2