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Mr, Miller asked about signs for rest rooms. Ms, Bohman said staff intended to place signing indicating the location of public rest rooms and to cDntinue e working with merchants to make rest rooms available to customers and if possible, to other users, She said the Downtown Commission had thoroughly discussed rest rooms and had determined that no location existed at present that wDuld fit with the design concept and would be cost efficient, She added that the Commission also had considered the use of vacant retail space as rest rooms but had not favored that idea, Mr, Miller asked about costs for furnishings, Ms, Bohman said about $9,000 of the cost for the play structure was for purchase of the structure, and the remainder was for demolition of the existing play structure, Ms. Wooten asked what percentage of the awnings was being paid for by the Downtown Commission program, Russ Brink of the Development Department said the program would participate up to one-half Df $120 per linear foot, Responding to Ms, Wooten's question, Ms. Bohman said electrical work without remodelling of the rest rooms would total about $80,000, Responding to Ms, Ehrman's question, Ms, Bohman said if the project was approved, design and construction documents would be refjned, and then bids would be sought and awarded by late November, with construction tD begin in about February, Ms. Bohman said item 16, traffic control and pedestrian protection, was for temporary lighting systems duri ng cDnstruction and additional costs to the contractor, She also said no public hearing had been held on the cost differences but added that the project had been addressed at public meetings in which comments were received. e Mayor Obie noted that substantial differences had occurred between estimates and actual costs for the reopening of Willamette Street between 10th and 11th, and he asked whether that was expected to occur again, Mr, Gleason said the underground utilities and foundations had presented unexpected CDsts, Ms. Wooten asked whether the expansion of Urban Renewal boundaries were designed to increase funds to complete plans for the Downtown Commission. Mr, Farkas said a presentation on the Urban Renewal Update would be given Wednesday, He added that the Urban Renewal Update was not contingent on the Broadway project, which was based on an existing budget. Ms, Wooten asked whether the project was considered a design or thematic precedent for the balance of renovation of the mall. Mr. Farkas said the theme and the various activity zones were intended to be replicated along Broadway and in other retail areas in the downtown vicinity. Ms. WODten asked about tota 1 costs, timeframe, and whether it wa s wi se to cDnduct the renovation on a piecemeal basis, Mr. Farkas said he did not know what total costs would be, He said a numbeF of options existed for financing, including use Df a local improvement district. Ms, Ehrman asked whether the electrical work would be sufficient for the lighting system or would include extra capacity, Ms. Bohman said the proposal included additional outlets for vendors and would have additional capacity, e MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 8, 1986 Page 10