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.. He also outlined an amendment to be approved as outlined in a memo of January 16, 1979: That the Civic Center architects be authorized to proceed with the Performing Arts component and that part of the Parking com- ponent designated as area A-2 of the Master Plan concept after the project architects and/or the construction manager has pre- pared, submitted, and had accepted, a project budget covering all elements of the agreed-upon program within the authorized General Obligation Bond funding, recognizing that the Performing Arts and designated Parking components may be required to stand alone, but will be affected by the total concept. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Mrs. Smith, to approve the three recommendations of the Civic Civic Center Commission, as outlined in the January 10 memo, and as amended by the Janaary 16 memo. Motion carried unanimously. Manager added that Section 3 does authorize the architect and others to explore additional parking. It will be necessary at the same time to continue to explore additional funding by whatever methods. In order to make a May deadline, it will be necessary to have a decision made before then whether there will be one or two levels of parking. March 30 would be the absolute deadline for that decision. Mayor Keller urged the Civic Center Commission and staff to keep Council informed and to keep moving. - IV. Parku1ation Study--Memo of December 29, 1978, has been distributed to Council members. Jim Hanks, Traffic Engineer, explained that the downtown area is under- going rapid changes, bring an influx of shoppers and employees downtown. He said t~e boundaries of the proposed study would be the railroad on the north, 13th on the south, Jefferson on the west, and Ferry Street on the east. Mr. Hamel said that many hours have been spent working on this same thing in the past, and he questions the need to spent $40,000 at this time. Mr. Hanks said the LTD proposal is an issue which needs to be worked out. The difficulty before was that LTD has had several sites proposed. The reason they have been switched so many times has been the lack of a com- prehensive study. Due to the sudden illness of Council member Hamel, and upon motion duly made, seconded, and passed, the meeting was adjourned. ~r)~ City Manager CTH:ml/CM7al - 1/17/79--5 30