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8. POBLIC HEARING (Cont'd) Mr. S ltesz On the question raised, as.to whether it is necessary or designated (Cont'd): pro and con on the Committee, and ft has come on as a designate of the Committee, as Lou Wilcox.has said here this morning. Insofar as the costs, I would like to address this to Mr. Oesterling: Once again, the cost of the stage = -1 have a figure of $37,000. When we speak of the canopies,'Mr. Oesterl ng to go from one side of the street to the other, it wasn't the ornate canopy that we speak of here. There was no difference from the canopies that we now have in the existing'facil'ity on R =66, nor the canopies that we now have on the east and west side. That same canopy, on the hydraulic, was to contain the lighting that would be necessary for the stage. This stage is not of the complexity most people seem to think that it is. Everybody in'this room has gone to -a filling station and had their car greased or oil changed. Now, this is exactly what the concept is all about. Now, the excavation- -and I am'not'an engineer the excavation that is necessary for this stage is less than three feet, so it doesn't disturb any of the existing facilities. The cost is very minimal. Now, someone has come up with a cost figure of $15,000 annual expense for this stage. I don't know where that figure came from- - because the schematic that was given to Mr. Oesterling, and here is the same schematic on the hydraulic-- the total price of the single unit, as he described here, was $5,000 in material, the split system (a two -stage system), and the 30 x 60 being split was $7,000 using and including the 1610 steel tubing. The platform is there. They contain a suhstructure or all materials to be used on the surface for the street, amounted to a total of $10,000; and I know that Mr. Oesterling and the people from Pittsburgh (Environ- mental Planning and Design), were amazed as to what we had suggested, because they couldn't find any area in the country who had anything of this nature. It was new and innovative. I sat here this morning and things were quite innovative also, be- cause a bid process that was laid out here, for example, of possibly a 10% plus figure of an award that was made. I ask a question of Mr. Oesterling as to what the cost of the stage was vs. any of the other facilities, and he said, $200,000. Am I correct, Mr. Oesterling? Mr. Oesterling: Yes. Mr. So tesz: The stage itself, as the unit was described. Now, there is quite a variance between $200,000 and $37,000; and,'yet' we went from one order of award here this morning on a particular project of a 'Nine (9) plus figure' and gave it to the lowest bidder. Yet, we have now a 'Nine (9) plus' over'the item of what we have sug- gested and it`wasn't.the expertise of all the engineers. An engineering firm submitted it as people who have to pay for these things and have to pay for the taxes, and all of these items that the people of this community seem to think that they want. now, I am not going to be dogmatic on the stand that this is what we need. This was just a suggestion, but not to over - simplify this particular thing, and it is very simple. It isn't all that great: - 23 -