CORE 9-27-12 Minutes

CORE 9-27-12

Thursday, September 27, 2012

8:24 AM

Hypothesis:

1.       Add Semester Program on Campus full time

a.       Needs to be full time to work financially

2.       Add Semester Program Off Campus

a.       This is the current status and it should remain until we have an improved enrollment.

3.       Eliminate or Backburner Semester Program

Kathy would really see a dividend from going all the way through the entire phase by phase build-out process process.

Phasing:

1a: Intern Housing

1b: Studio, shop and housing

1c: Kitchen and Dinning area

2: studio shop housing

3a: Dining, Kitchen, Offices

3b: Renovate Alpen to become lecture area; lounge area with kitchenette (café), keep shop

Dialogue:

Kin is worried that we are not staying true to our Regenisis principles.

Kate wants to go forward with Reality and Business Plan goals.

Kate wants to let enrollment trigger the phases, even more than the capital campaign...or link the two.

John feels that compromise is not so evil a word….better would be problem solve  or reconcile...but they're all part of making bricks and mortar.

Robin wants to get something - almost anything - accomplished before we adjourn!  Then he reminded the group about the initial cost of site work.

SO, it was almost agreed that we should only build three residential buildings and three  studio buildings….almost...and then Kate argued that it could be two studios.

Some debate and then Kate reminded Robin that we must have housing for a full Semester program.

Robin sees the project to be mostly one of phasing and he sees that phasing as driven by the program.

Kate thinks the sequence should be:

(Assuming Semester Program will stay in Montpelier)

1.       Housing

2.       Dining & Kitchen

3.       Shop

Housing will allow us to take the beds out of the Alpen basement and make use of it for studio space.

Robin then summarized Dining and Kitchen stays in Alpen with two small studios. 

Then, when we build the Main Building, the Alpen becomes studio, lecture, library lounge, kitchenette.  And the Main Bldg. includes, Kitchen, Dining, Admin, Entry & Welcome. 

Pedestrian Campus

The truck delivery and the relocation of the campus center will fairly compromise the pedestrian campus idea.

The rest of the session was used to look at options for the driveway, parking, Main building, etc.

Respectfully submitted...etc.