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8. PUBLIC HEARING (Cont'd Mr. Oe terling: We have cost estimates for.three proposals shown. I might add that Clyde E. Williams & Associates and Environmental Planning and Design, joint venture, recommended Plan A, for the only reason of being within the budget that Redevelopment Department set for us to be °within limitation, so with Site A, that is within the budget that-is available that the Department of Redevelopment has to spend, so based on that, we did recommend Study A. If the budget were available,we would recommend Site Study 'D.' Our approval has been through the great leadership of Mr. Lou Wilcox. I think he has done an excellent job last year of pro - moting activities in the Mall area and we concur. He and the River Bend Advisory Committee sees the need of something, a drawing card to draw people downtown, and he -needs a 'People Place' which admittedly was not really in the original concept of the design. We didn't have that fact in mind and very few, if any, are designed in the country that way. This is really a new idea and it is a good idea, so with that preliminary then I can review the costs. I will briefly go over the total costs- -not any particulars. Study 'D' could run from a minimum of $770,000 to $1,465,000. Again, the reason for the range in 'the plans is the difference between a Chevrolet and a Cadillac perhaps, and for a minimum price of $180,000 the stage would be a sinSle unit and at"the Advisory Com- mittee meeting they advised a two -stage and we would recommend that as a minimum also, and the more multiple levels you can have of a stage, the more and better use you can make it, but as we have more multiple stages, it would cost more. Again, at the minimum cost of the roof over the stage at $130,000 it would be a simple truss with built -up roof on a standard support system, and again that could range from $130,000 to $310,000 depending on the degree of completeness or appearance that you would want on it. This stage does not include auxiliary space for office, dressing rooms, toilets and storage areas. In particular, we have utilities under there and have studied this in depth, and went to the scope of providing a dressing room and office space -like or storage facili- ties underneath that stage. It would increase the cost of relocating the utilities. Well, it would be almost impossible. We have two combined sewers; we have one storm sewer in there; we have a gas line which can be moved; we have a water line which can be moved - -not much of a problem. With this concept, we do have a major problem with the I &M primary duct lines which involves considerable cost of re- location, that's included in the figures. If ,this concept, or any concept, we recommend that an auxiliary space for office be leased by the Redevelopment Commission, or whoever is in control, for this need. That would be true of both of those Alternates. Alternate 'A' above would cost in total of $442,000 to $645,000- - again depending upon degrees of complexity and desirability of the canopy.