{"id":268,"date":"2012-12-11T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/county-proceeding-on-a-fixed-library-line-lcc-2012-12-10.html"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:25:55","slug":"county-proceeding-on-a-fixed-library-line-lcc-2012-12-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/county-proceeding-on-a-fixed-library-line-lcc-2012-12-10.html","title":{"rendered":"County proceeding on a fixed library line @ LCC 2012-12-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZH9-oQEMpjg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee625d3c4970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee625d3c4970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nScoring for library architect selection seems more rigorous now,<br \/>\nat yesterday morning&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/12\/videos-lcc-2012-12-10.html\"><br \/>\nLowndes County Commission Work Session<\/a>.<br \/>\nBut where are the scores?<br \/>\nAnd what are the names of the two finalists?<br \/>\nThey vote or table tonight at 5:30 PM.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n8.h. New Main Library \u2014 Construction Manager At Risk Selection\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nProject Manager Chad McCleod said<br \/>\nproposals had been received from nine firms,<br \/>\nand &#8220;using a score sheet with certain grading criteria&#8221;<br \/>\nstaff narrowed them down to three offers.<br \/>\nEach firm gave a one-hour presentation last Friday to<br \/>\nthe selection committee which again<br \/>\n&#8220;used certain grading criteria to score each firm&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe top two scorers were Coffee[?] Construction and<br \/>\nQuillian Powell Construction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI applaud actually using scoring, instead of what appeared to happen<br \/>\nfor the main library architect selection, with<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/sgrl\/architect\/\"><br \/>\na relatively elaborate selection process including a scoring sheet<br \/>\nthat then apparently wasn&#8217;t actually used in the architect selection.<\/a><br \/>\nBut where are these filled-out score sheets for the applicants this time,<br \/>\nso we the taxpayers can see them?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Commission could have staff<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nsubmit written reports that<br \/>\ngo in the agenda and minutes, like the Library Board does,<br \/>\nand then put those online as PDF or HTML linked to an HTML agenda,<br \/>\nlike Glynn County<br \/>\nand Richmond County do, and we wouldn&#8217;t have to guess the<br \/>\nnames of construction firms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCounty Manager Joe Pritchard said<br \/>\n&#8220;the reason we have moved forward&#8221;<br \/>\neven though<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/splost-vii-sglb-2012-11-20.html\"><br \/>\nSPLOST failed<\/a> was<br \/>\n&#8220;only to put the team together if and when funds become available<br \/>\nin the future&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Chairman and Commissioner Raines mentioned that there<br \/>\nare other sources of funds for a library, and Raines even said:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is not even related to SPLOST.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHm, why was it in<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/county-clarifies-library-and-parks-division-in-splost-vii.html\"><br \/>\nthe county&#8217;s SPLOST project list,<\/a> then?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt appears the county hasn&#8217;t even considered whether<br \/>\nthe Five Points location was maybe part of why SPLOST failed,<br \/>\nand maybe they should consider for example the federal building<br \/>\ndowntown.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a big supporter of libraries, but I&#8217;m also a big supporter of<br \/>\nelected governments listening to the people, and the people just<br \/>\nvoted down SPLOST, with many of them saying the library and auditorium<br \/>\nprojects with their opaque selection processes were part of the reason.<br \/>\nMeanwhile Houston County had public hearings about their SPLOST, which voters then<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/12\/splost-won-in-houston-county-but-not-in-lowndes-county-why.html\"><br \/>\napproved in a landslide.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZH9-oQEMpjg\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZH9-oQEMpjg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small><br \/>\nCounty proceeding on a fixed library line<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWork Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 December 2012.<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scoring for library architect selection seems more rigorous now, at yesterday morning&#8217;s Lowndes County Commission Work Session. 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