BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

user/needs are being properly met, and methods of financing that can be
responsive to change as needs change or new opportunities open up.
115. Most of the case histories of the projects discussed in this paper
and in the papers by Margrit Kennedy and T. Malan cited in paragraph 2
above, have involved intensive user and citizen participation in planning
and design. In many of these projects, users have requested continuing
roles in the performance of the programs, and also in administration.
The form of user-citizen participation in governance varies considerably
on a project-to-project basis. In many situations, citizens have been
invited to work with officials in the design of appropriate administrative
forms in much the way that they participated together in facility design
and in the design of net-works.
116. In the Human Resources Center, Pontiac, Michigan, the building itself
is owned by the Board of Education. However the Center is, to all practical
purposes, independent of the Board. It has its own administration,
budgets, executive director and staffs. Its Board of Directors is composed
of citizens (50 per cent) and representatives of the many public departments,
service agencies and cultural groups which occupy the Center
(50 per cent). Many of the citizens are people who participated in the
planning and design process.
117. The various public departments, service agencies and cultural groups
in the Center are permitted to occupy space on a full-time or shared basis,
rent-free. Their budgets are used only for the operation of their programs
and services. However, all users are on a year-by-year basis. The
quality of their performance and the appropriateness of their programs are
monitored by the Board of Directors of the Center, and by its sub-committees
appointed for this task. If their programs or performance are found to be
deficient, they are asked to modify them. In cases of non-compliance, or
if the need for their services has been fulfilled, they are asked to vacate
their space in preference for another programme considered to be more needed.
118. In the Minneapolis Southeast Alternatives program the five schools
have a decentralized Administration under the aegis of the central Board
of Education. Parents have a 50/50 representation with -the school staffs
in this decentral administration.
119. In the Queensgate II Town Center, Cincinnati, the citizens who have
worked with the planners, architects and officials on this large multiusage
project are now forming their own non-profit development corporation
so that they can build, own, and administer facilities such as the Community
Museum and Arts Center. Funding will come from City and Federal
sources on low-interest loan.
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