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• Persons detained in City jail cells should be released from the lower level, not the upper level; • The Police Department should be on the lower level, not the upper level; All non - Police City Departments should be on the upper level; • The License Center should move from the Lexington Shoppes and be on the upper level of City Hall; • Using the underground parking for impounded vehicles 1s inappropriate-, • The landscaping is insufficient, especially around the Police sally ports and garage area; The front of City Hall does not have an attractive design. Some persons attending the workshops suggested the City redesign the Project consistent with their concerns and desires — mostly reducing or eliminating the underground parking, moving the PD to the lower level of City Hall , and putting more city offices on the upper level of City Hall. Some costs and benefits of such a redesign process are as follows 1: 1 Note: These are fairly rough estimates based on our experience with this project so far. More accuracy in estimating the costs of pursuing the alternative design proposal suggested by some members of the public would require significant design work by Ankeny Kell Architects and their electrical, structural, and mechanical engineers. If Ankeny Dell were to immediately suspend their work and the work of most of the other persons working on the current design and the current bid packages, and were to dedicate themselves instead to studying and designing alternative glans sufficient to enable Mc Gough to produce more accurate cost figures for the alternative design, that effort would rewire a m 'mum of a month's work and approximately 30,000. To clarify, this additional time and money would be what is rewired to produce a More accurate cost estimate for the alternative design; it would not bring us to the same point we are at now with the current design in terms of preparing detailed architectural drawings and preparing detailed specifications and bid packages. Since we have been working on this project now for five months, a redesign may tale 3-4 months and $400,000 to get us to the same point we are at now.