ABSTRACT: After City Administrator Rich Guillen presented an “update on the Forest Theatre Renovation” at the City Council meeting on October 2, 2007, including his mischaracterization of Brain Congleton’s Forest Theatre Master Plan, Carmel area resident Skip Lloyd contradicted Guillen’s characterization and commented that Brain Congleton’s Forest Theater Master Plan is “quite a comprehensive plan, it goes into far more than just access for handicapped and things like that. It’s a full blown Master Plan.”
City Council Agenda
Regular Meeting
October 2, 2007
V. Announcements from Closed Session, from City Council Members and the City Administrator.
C. Announcements from City Administrator.
• Receive update on Forest Theater Renovation
City Administrator Rich Guillen presented an update on the Forest Theatre Renovation, as follows:
“Basically, in 2001, Brain Congleton architects completed the Forest Theatre Master Plan and that Master Plan basically addressed the Americans with Disabilities Act and that was presented to the Council and accepted. Later, in 2001, the Forest Theater Foundation had an assessment done by R.F. M. architects that addressed the theatrical needs of the Forest Theatre that was also presented to the City Council around that time. In September 2004, the Forest Theater Foundation requested approval from the city Council to move forward on a fund raising effort and solicited grants so that they could get into a design phase to renovate the Forest Theatre. And they raised about $50,000 in doing that. And so that plan is in pre-design. They hope to have the final stages completed here shortly. And I want to make it clear to the public there is no Master Plan that we have in possession now. We’ve had some requests, saying can we have the Master Plan, it’s not completed, and it’s not in the City’s hands. It’s actually being shepparded by the Forest Theatre Foundation. So please hold off your calls until they come forward. The next stage after they do the pre-design is that they are going to have a neighborhood meeting because obviously we want to have a good relationship with the neighbors next to the Forest Theatre. And then they will come to the Council, make the presentation on the Forest Theatre Master Plan and get some policy direction from the Council."
Later, during Appearances, Skip Lloyd contradicted City Administrator Rich Guillen, as follows:
"...I think Rich, your comment about Brain Congleton’s Master Plan for Forest Theatre (multi-page Master Plan held up), maybe was a little abbreviated, this is quite a comprehensive plan, it goes into far more than just access for handicapped and things like that. It’s a full blown Master Plan.”
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2 comments:
I believe Rich has been told by Sue McCloud to mischaracterize and marginalize the Congleton plan. He is so threatened by her he cannot even tell the truth.
Rich needs to go and fast. His onlg list of misleading statement to the public just keep getting longer. He is an embarrassment.
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