Q&A from Remodel Information

Q. Where will Koreans hold their services?
A. We will accommodate the Korean Church for their services. They also will be using other rooms for Sunday school just as we will be doing.

Q. Is there a time line start to finish?
A. Yes, we expect it will be 4-5 months done in 3 phases

Q. Will they outside patio area have a cover?
A. There is no plan right now for a covered patio.

Q. Where will the building process start?
A. The side rooms where the children’s Sunday school rooms are currently located. We will knock out walls to increase the size of the rooms. When that is complete we will move on to the gym area.

Q. What about safety during the remodel of the gym and the outside area for the teens?                                                                                                                                                                         A- A. There will be fencing around the areas being worked on.Q. What about Wednesday night meals?

Q. What about Wednesday Night meals?
A. Wednesday meals will continue. We will use the foyer area when we start remodeling in the gym.

Q. Will the patio be enclosed?
A. There is no plans at the present time to enclose the patio.

Q. Where will the choir practice?
A. There will be a place for the choir to practice. Possibly in the large room that will be created when the wall comes down between Pastor Rachelle’s office and the class room next door to it.

Q. Is there or could we get an attendance level comparison between 07-08 and 09?
A. Yes, we will make that available.

Q. Where will Parents Night Out be?
A. In the new children’s area.

Q. Will Celebrate Recovery be affected?
A. No, Celebrate Recovery will not be an issue. There will be two access areas to the kitchen so Celebrate Recovery will still have the access that they have had in the past.

Q. Where will Children’s Quizzing events be held?
A. In the sanctuary.

Q. What about wedding receptions?
A. They can use the Children’s area or foyer. If that isn’t big enough they will have to use some other venue, which is what many do already.

Q. In the present plan there is one bathroom for the nursery. Can we have another bathroom?
A. Budget won’t allow for it. The plan is for one bathroom between the two baby nurseries as we have now but we will explore this possibility.

Q. What about Girl Scouts and Wrestling club?
A. Currently the Girl Scouts use the annex and the Wrestling club has moved to West Creek Middle School.

Q. What are we doing with upstairs area?
A. Wall will be installed to make two separate classrooms for Sunday school classes for 5th and 6th grade.

Q. What about volunteer workers?
A. With the contractors it will be mostly a turn key job, however if we have people who want to volunteer for specific tasks, we can work with the contractors to accommodate that. We would have to give a two week notice so the contractor can take that into consideration and deduct that labor expense from the project.

Q. Will Pastors Rachelle & Dwayne’s offices be moved closer to the other offices?
A. Yes, they will be moving to the other side of the building.

Q. Will the kitchen be updated to a commercial kitchen?
A. No, we would have to have a fresh air vent for a commercial stove and that’s not possible right now. What we will do is upgrade the appliances and install convection ovens.

Q. Have we considered building up stairs over the gym?
A. That is not cost effective.

Q. What about building on the side of the building.
A. We looked at that and it is not cost effective as well.

Q. Were there consultants on this job?
A. No, staff and board came up with the layout. Prior conversations were held with the McKnight Group from Columbus, OH but the feasibility study they did related to increasing seating capacity for worship. They did have other insights and suggestions related to overall use of our space but the plan we are working with was developed by the staff and board.

Q. Can we retro fit gym for later build up?
A. No, that would involve tearing out the gym floor and installing concrete piers and steel columns. Not cost effective at all.

Q. Do we need a fund raising campaign?
A. We could accomplish this without a campaign but we will have a capital campaign so that we can pay off debt as quickly as possible.

Q. Will this be hard on us, with moving classrooms etc?
A. Yes. The project will create chaos but it will be organized chaos. Classes will have to be flexible as each phase of the remodel will involve some level of adjustment in class locations.

Q. Can we build gym in the future?
A. That will depend on our income but it is in the long range vision.

Q. What about Craft show?
A. Don’t know how it will be put together in the future but we will have adequate space to accommodate it.

Q. Do we have a break down for cost of each room/area?
A. Don’t have the break down tonight but we will compile it.

Q. Are the sound systems for youth and children, etc,. included in this price?
A. Yes

Q. Could we use chairs in the current sanctuary thereby allowing more flexibility in this room to use it more effectively?
A. The board has discussed this but it was deemed not appropriate at this time.

Q. Will there be more painting in the sanctuary?
A. No this is it for now.

Q. Will we have laminate floor or real wood?
A. Commercial grade laminate floor that will hold up well.

Q. Where will 3 yr old nursery go during gym construction?
A. It will move to one of the side class rooms that are being enlarged in phase 1 of the remodel.

Q. Where will children’s church meet during gym remodel?
A. They will move upstairs to the room above the gym.

Q. Current note is 13 years. What is time frame on new note?
A. 10 yrs.

Q. What is the cost difference between our original Phase II plan developed with Pastor Miller and the current remodel plan?
A. The original Phase II plan developed several years ago was 2.3 million at that time. This project is $320,000.

Comments that were made:
Congratulations to the leadership of the church for the hard work they have put in on this project.
Once the vote is taken, if it is voted for everyone needs to get on board. Please no negative statements about the decisions. If it is voted down, again, no negative statements. We need to be unified in this decision.