The architects indicated to
the Commissioners Court that in connection
with the placing of
the structure and the proposed 11 blocks side,
as has been mentioned,
that it would be
feasible to do this because you would have
the parking space underneath the building in
the original plans as outlined
by the fine Citizens Advisory Group,
which I pointed and has worked so diligently
and formulating the plans
in which the public has accepted.
It was pointed out that
as result of the underground parking,
you would not need
as much surface area for parking on top.
Judge, did the commissioners and yourself see this
as an opportunity to save some taxpayers money?
When we are looking at this picture in this slide,
we want the very best convention facility
that this money can buy.
We feel we have a first-rate County
and we want a first rate convention center.
There's to be nothing second rate about this at all.
And I would like to say that it
has not been our purpose basically,
to try to be
miserly in any respect in connection with this at all.
But we must be conservative to
the extent that in building the facility,
as I have outlined to you,
and it's magnitude of size and
purpose and utility together with the land cost that
we must live internally within the $15 million that
the bond voters are
the citizens this county voted for bonds.
All of these factors lead us to know that
we had to lay out within the $15 million.
Certainly, it is not our policy nor
our purpose to cut back or to
be miserly in building this facility.
But we must be realistic in
our approach to these problems as we've tried to
be in all the other matters
affecting government and over which we have control.
Judge, Do you think that
a general meeting between the council,
that committee and the commissioners
might solve some of these problems.
Our purpose and asking for a meeting
with the City Council,
the City of Fort Worth,
in which I was instructed to call them mayor,
to call set your meeting was to
inform them of this general area as recommended by
the architects because it would it would
require the closing or some of
the city streets in the air at involved.
And of course we hit do not have
the power to condemn city streets,
nor would we want to list this entire area can be used.