BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

j) The planners and architects will then develop a series of alternative
design themes, working with the Task Forces and with the
Steering Committee in.informal working meetings.
k) These alternative design themes and working reports from each
Task Force will now be presented at the Second Public Forum.
As far as possible, the participants at the first Public Forum
should be encouraged to attend the second. The purposes of the
Second Public Forum are:
- to hear from the Steering Committee a summary of the
planning process to date, taking up the story from the
end of the first Public Forum;
- to hear brief reports from each Task Force regarding its
"cluster" of tasks;
- to hear from the technical staff a report on co-ordination,
and how co-ordination was interpreted in alternative design
themes.
The Public Forum should then discuss the design themes, and express
opinions with regard to the "preferred alternative" design
theme.
1) The planners and architects then develop detailed designs for the
Preferred Alternative. As they move forward, the Steering
Committee should ensure that periodic meetings are held, and that
the Task Forces and appropriate public departments are properly
involved so that there are no surprises and no redesigns. Close
attention at this stage must be paid to capital and operational
cost projections, and cost/benefit analyses of co-ordination compared
with traditional methods of development should be made.
m) Once the preferred alternative design has been worked out to the
satisfaction of the Steering Committee, the Task Forces should be
called upon to assist in negotiating final inter-sectoral commitments
so that the co-ordinated program and design can proceed.
The importance of involving the Task Forces in this stage of the
work is that each Task Force contains citizens and uses among its
members (thus tying the negotiations back into the participation
process), and it also contains public officials (thus ensuring
that final commitment will be a matter of detail rather than basic
policy).
n) The design then goes into final detailed design, construction
documents, and implementation.
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