Karen McDonald reports that “The first meeting of the Peoria County Riverfront Museum Committee has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Friday on the fourth floor of the Peoria County Courthouse.” The agenda packet was posted to the County’s website just before 2:30 Wednesday afternoon — barely meeting the deadline set by the Open Meetings Act.
That gives the public just 48 hours to review the 348-page document which includes:
- Bid Letting for the Riverfront Museum Parking Deck
- Engineering Agreements for Construction oversight and materials testing to construct the Riverfront Museum Parking Deck
- Redevelopment Agreement
- Lease Operating Agreement
- Design Concepts
I guess museum committee members have their reading assignments for today, as do local news reporters. Of course, its adoption is a fait accompli, at least for the County. The big question now is whether the City will approve it. I’ll have more on this after I get a chance to review the documents. If you have the time and inclination to read it today (due to, say, insomnia or masochism), please leave your observations in the comments section.
How can they let a bid for the parking deck when they don’t hold title for the land? The COP still has it right?
Read pages 192-193, part of “The White Oak Plan”, specifically on page 192, the paragraph which begins, “As of this writing, negotiations are….” (it won’t allow me to C&P), and the next. The plan is dated June 30, 2010. Basically says they STILL don’t have a contract with IMAX. Further, it admits that if the PRM must go with an “alternate vendor”,it “will result in significantly lower attendance”.
Also read “Key Assumptions” (pages 201-203), specifically item #6. Looks like PRM wants to severly limit the showing of first-run movies in favor of more “classic” flicks. Yup, that’s what folks were voting for!
The PRM through Chairman and County Board Member, Steve Morris, held a press conference regarding this document at noon today at the CourtHouse. As a board member, I received and email dated 10:16 today.
Interesting.