Building Committee – Background and Recent Updates
In February 2004, the Church Council chartered a “Building Proposals Study Group” to review, study, and report back to Church Council regarding:(1) purchasing property surrounding St. Luke’s; (2)reviewing options for expanding St. Luke’s facilities; and (3) reviewing options for increasing parking capacity.Specific facility enhancements to consider were:building a LARGE “multi-purpose” room (furnished with state-of-art kitchen, and audio-video capability) and establish state-of-art nursery facility.
We’ve come a long way since February 2004 thanks to hard work by many of our St. Luke’s laity members, our staff, and our Pastors.As many will recall, last year about this time, we provided you with building committee updates about the facility improvements needed to invest in St. Luke’s future for expanding our local, national and world-wide missions. We have been working diligently the last year to take into account your comments and are ready now to move forward.
As a refresher, the design-build company that we have contracted with since December 2006 is Myler Corporation.Myler is a recognized leader in the church and religious facilities construction industry. For more than three decades, Myler has worked with over 1,000 churches of nearly every denomination and religious affiliation, providing professional design/build services designed to protect the interests of the Church and its people.
“Myler understands that the success of a church building program isn't found in the dimensions of wood, brick, or stone. It's found in the solid foundation formed by people working together in harmony and unity toward a common purpose. That's why growing churches all across America are using Myler. They are "The Church Building People.”
On 26 August 2009, the Church Council Chair confirmed that CC members had voted for the Klote Capital Campaign contract.As a result of that vote and further discussion with Jim Klote, a contract has been signed with Klote Associates and a retainer of $5,000 has been sent to secure their services.Due to the timing of this activity, we have elected to begin the feasibility study portion of the Capital Campaign on 11 Jan 2010.Upon completion of the feasibility study, in mid-February there will be a church-wide vote on the building plan, and assuming a majority vote in favor of this plan, we will immediately move into the Capital Campaign with the ultimate goal of securing pledges from St. Luke’s laity so that we can fund the St. Luke’s building plan.
On 23 September, the Building Committee Chair met with the Church Staff to go over the plans and update the plans where appropriate and on 19 October the building committee met to review changes to our drawings and to begin planning for the upcoming feasibility study.We asked Myler (the design-build company) to make changes to the drawings in preparation for the upcoming Feasibility Study presentations to the SLUMC laity which will start approximately mid-January 2010.
On 11 November, the Building Committee met with Myler’s PM for this project, Steve Retorick and the meeting’s primary objectives were to have a review of the building plans, make changes before the church begins its 4 week long feasibility study (lead by Klote) on January 11, 2010, and also to ask Myler to provide updated drawings suitable for the presentations to the St. Luke’s laity during the feasibility study.
Starting 11 January, 2010, Glendon Smith, a consultant from James Klote Associates, will lead us through a series of focus group sessions which will continue through the first week of February.During these sessions, we’ll update you on the current state of our planning, take your comments and feedback, and prepare for a “church-wide” vote in mid-February on whether to proceed with this project to enlarge and refurbish St. Luke’s future capacity for enhanced and expanded ministry.
