Tacoma City Council Meeting - April 21st, 2009
Tonight’s City Council meeting had several topics on the agenda that always interest you. Parking. Lemay. Quigg Bros, Inc. You do remember Tim Quigg, right?
So, to begin with, Ordinance No. 27796 was removed from tonight’s agenda so that it could be reworked a bit. It should be back next week. This would have been first reading of the ordinance related to the removal of off street parking requirements in the International Financial Services Area.
Now for the rest of it …
APPOINTMENTS
Resolution No. 37778 appoints Jack Connelly, Jr. to serve on the Tacoma Public Library Board of Trustees through March 3, 2014.
RESOLUTIONS
Purchase Resolution No. 37779 awards a contract to Quigg Bros, Inc., on its bid of $15,292,037, plus an 11 percent contingency, for a total of $16,974,161, sales tax not applicable, budgeted from the Street Special Revenue Fund, for the Hylebos Bridge Rehabilitation Project. The project is estimated to last 30 months and be completed in late 2011.
Resolution No. 37780 establishes the Identity Theft Prevention Program in accordance with the requirements of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003.
Resolution No. 37781 authorizes an agreement with Meng Analysis, in the amount of $391,516, budgeted from the Municipal Buildings Acquisition and Operations Fund, for a condition assessment of 49 City-owned buildings.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Tonight was the night for the public to provide comments on the City’s possible application of a $3.5 million Community Development Block Grant for the Lemay Museum. Nearly all the comments were suppportive and this will be back again soon for consideration. Previously on Exit133
That’s it for this evening.
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4 comments
I I'm for Change (for tacoma) April 22, 2009
Nearly all the comments were suppportive
Darn, I wish I could have made the meeting. I would have been a dissenter to the Lemay support. I don’t see those two large lots of parking being replaced in the new scaled-back plans. So where’s everyone to park during Dome events? I also have a vested (selfish) interest in losing a nice view of the water for what is surely to be another boring TAC building.
Honestly, will the nascar crowd REALLY bring in enough money to make this a long-term viable entity? Or in 5-some years will there be another empty building with For Lease signs all over it? A car museum – why not Detroit then? [yes, I know the family is/was from these parts.]
How many people do you personally know that will visit this museum? How many of those will return again and again?
R reenerb April 22, 2009
RE: I’m for Change
I don’t think the target audience for the Lemay Museum is Nascar Fans. Why would you want to move the World’s Largest Collection of cars to another state? It’s a good thing I don’t personally know the majority of the people that visit the museum … cause that would be sad. (I don’t know that many people.)
You should go out to the current Lemay Museum some day and see the bus loads of visitors coming by tour bus. It’s impressive! If the loaction was more ideal … say … viewable from the Freeway … I bet even more people would check it out!
F Frizzlebee April 22, 2009
On a design note, I imagine that whomever is designing the LeMay Museum would follow the design standards of either the old-school Union Station or the new school (and awesome) Convention Center, Museum of Glass, or even (forgetting the name of the new project on 12th & Pacific). It should be anything but boring.
R RR Anderson April 22, 2009
watching the spokesmen of special interest groups voice their support for the ‘Museum’ now on TV TACOMA archive. thank god there are some voices of decent coming from individual citizens. MORE ON THIS later on Feed Tacoma!