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• • Frank Coffey, 1200 Admirals Walk, was on the Space \eeds Committee for 18 months. He strongly endorsed the continuation of this project. He has reviewed the Programming Document and found it to be an excellent report. There were a couple of issues, but he did not mean to be critical of the Song report. He reviewed the charts he had put together; the first was a summary chart which gave the square footage per employee under the various studies put together. He noted that the numbers used by the Space Needs Committee are almost identical in total square footage to those developed by Song & Associates. On a second chart, entitled Staff Employees (per department) for County Administration Building, he focused on the last two columns and noted that there was a large increase in the number of employees in Community Development. He understood some of that increase because of the large building growth we have experienced, but he questioned that this may be dust a current spike which may not continue through to that time (2015). Once again, the total numbers are very close. Then on page 3 of his handout, focusing on the Community Development and Planning Division, again their figures are close. He urged the Board to continue to work and move forward as quickly as possible. (A copy of the charts used by Mr. Coffey has been placed with the backup for the meeting in the office of the Clerk to the Board.) Ital Veron, 280 Peppertree Drive, Indian River Shores, was also a member of the SNC. He thought there were two significant things: first, this projection by Song & Associates has about a 1% variance with what the SNC came up with if you add in the Recreation Department of 3100 square feet, which we did not have at the time. He also mentioned that almost 4 years ago, July 6, 1999, he came before the Board on behalf of the Taxpayers Association to voice disapproval of the work on previous programming and asked them to stop all work. It was after that the SNC was formed and most recently this document was presented. He has reviewed the document and it is a long step forward to September 23, 2003 41