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Commissioner Eggert noted that you have to meet a certain <br />energy code in order to keep the air-conditioning operating <br />expenses down. <br />Mr. Howell advised that they took the entire building and <br />broke it down into line item figures, and each of those figures <br />was given to the various consultants to make sure that their <br />design hit that number. As far as materials are concerned, it is <br />steel, glass, stucco, etc. There is nothing exotic called for <br />that a local contractor couldn't handle. <br />Mr. Williams reported that by the time we complete the City <br />site plan and the State Library review, we expect to be out for <br />bids somewhere around the first of October, allowing 30 days for <br />bids, and then come back to the Board for approval. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked for permission to go out to bid on <br />two other items. We will be receiving a bequest, and Mrs. <br />Lowenstein has been willing to let us put some of that bequest, <br />if it works out, toward making an outdoor reading room on top of <br />a section of the roof with planters, railings along the edge, and <br />a controlled access. The other item that is desired is to have a <br />topiary animal, probably a giraffe, right outside the children's <br />room, along with some funds for the genealogy and the Florida <br />history room. The bequest would cover that, and they would like <br />to bid those as add-ons. <br />way. <br />Mr. Howell advised that the documents have been set up that <br />Mr. Williams noted that Item 9-C on today's Agenda for <br />Professional Services Supplemental Authorization is the <br />additional cost to design the roof structure alternate that would <br />be required for the outdoor reading room. All of those costs <br />will be bid as a unit, and it will be easy to identify all of <br />those costs separately from the base bid. <br />AUG 2 1989 21 BOOK `11, F ', V� <br />