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CLEARWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES OF THE MEETING or
20 AUGUST 1976
Mayorts Conference Room at City Hall
1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. ~
PRESENT
ABSENT
Mr.
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Larry Reis, Chairman
Curtis Barre
Rita Garvey
Theresa Goss
Jessica'Kerr
Walter A. Krick
Audrey Patouillet
Althea Andersen, Acting
Mr. Wilby Anderson
Ms. Matile Hendry
Ms. Johnie Mae Moore
Mr. Alber~ Rogers
Director and Secretary
ALSO PRESENT
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Mr~',Santo Casella, Senior Pl~nner
Mr. Warren Renando, Acting Director of Planning Department
Mr. Vernon Kirby, St. Petersburg Times
Mr. Charles Finton
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Larry Reis. '
Mr. Reis read the memorandum from Michael Paroby, Assistant
City Manager, concerning the offering of the Cooper-Reeves-
Baskin Building, formerly known as the West Coast Hotel,
for use as a library. ,He then read the letter from
Robert Jones, President of the RandOlph Real Estate Company,
describing the building and sta~ing the price of $650,000.
After discussion a motion was made and seconded with
all in favor of expressing no interest in persuing negations
for this building.
Warren Renando, Acting Director of the Planning Department,
spoke of the direction his department is taking in exploring
a lease situation in a shopping center for a new East branch.
He presented a small diagramatic model of the land on
which the main library is sitting and pointed out three
possibilities for utilizing this city owned land for a new
building of approximately 40,000-50,000 sq. ft.:
1. Tear down existing structure and construct
a large one story building utilizing all
city owned land.
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Mintites of the Meeting of ~ugust 20, 1976
Page 2
2. Tear down building and build a two story
building with land for landscaping.
3. Build three story building with some space
for parking and landscaping.
Possibilities land 2 would require relocating
building contents during construction. Possibility
3 could be executed behind existing structure with
demolition after occupancy of new library building.
Santo Casella, Senior Planner, addressed the Board
concerning the "Key Project Areas" in relation to the
Downtown Redevelopment Plan. He hoped the location'
,and design of a possible new library facility incorporated
,in a program statement would be developed with the Library
staff, Planning Department and input of the Board.
'Althea Andersen, Acting Secretary
25 August 1976
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