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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes and Verbatim Transcript of November 8, 2005 Workshop Page 6 of17 59 shouldn't go further without discussions with Unicorp, because they are the designated developer at this 60 point, and they deserve the opportunity to react to our critique. And so my suggestion is that I give this 61 critique or this analysis of their proforma to them and then we meet face to face as soon as possible. And 62 that we would make a presentation to you within a very short time. There's any numbers; a finance model 63 that can be supported by both companies. 64 MAYOR GOFF: Okay. See, one of the things that I thought that we needed to do as, as a Commission, was 65 determine whether or not we wanted a civic center or not; whether we wanted it on that location or not; 66 whether we wanted thirty thousand square feet or not; or fifteen thousand square feet or not; and the funding 67 packages that were available, and, you know, that would allow us to build that either in partnership with 68 somebody or privately by ourselves, if that's what we wanted to do. And so, you know, I, I looked and 69 looked and looked and looked through all of your information and finally found that we were looking at a 70 thirty thousand, three hundred square foot civic center, which is fine, except that the last time that we met 71 and talked about it, we were talking more in the terms of fifteen thousand, but not having any knowledge of 72 what type of grants, what type of aid, what type of programs there are out there that would assist the City of 73 CasselbelT}' in funding this type of a program, we haven't made the determination as a Commission that we 74 are even going to have a civic center, let alone where. And so, that's why I'm kind of confused because 75 we're, we're charging off down on this path for a thirty thousand square foot civic center and correct me if 76 I'm wrong, but I thought we had talked in more in the line of fifteen thousand, which, you know, I'm 77 ambivalent about the size, but, but, you know, we've seemed to have gotten off track and we're not getting 78 the kind of information to know, you know, after reading this, it seems to be the assumption that we're going 79 to (A), roll it into the cost of Unicorp's construction, or (B), we're going to do something else and the 80 something else isn't defined. And those are the questions that I would have of you at this particular point 81 in time before I'm ready to go on anywhere. 82 JOHN STAINBACK: When we; I agree that there should be a, an analysis ofthe civic center building and 83 what its purpose is and how large it should be. That needs to be done. That's not something that our 84 company would do. It would be something an architect or a planner would do, would help you with. I 85 understood our role as to determine the fmancial feasibility of the project, overall City Center project, as well 86 as the civic center building, and to try to determine whether the sale or lease of the property across the street 87 would help, would cover the, recover the money on the land investment and pay for a portion of the building. 88 The civic center building.