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Scope of Work: Capacities and Functions: Phase I

Functions: The following list of functions and capacities will determine the shape and size of the spaces in our building:

• Worship: 450 people
  
• Fellowship/kitchen: 200 people at tables
  
• Greenhouse/school: 200 children (pre-K through elementary)
  
• Admin offices: 6 full and part-time staff
  
• Youth Ministry: middle and high school rooms
  
• Outreach/missions: 400 sq. ft. for storage/meeting area
  
• Storage: 400 sq. ft. total dispersed in building
  
• Resource/computer lab: 200 sq. ft.
  
• Prayer room/chapel 20 people
  
• Children's gathering: 200 children and leaders
  
• Outdoor play area
  
• Entry/foyer: 1,800 sq. ft. ( 1/3 of worship space)
  
• Outdoor patio: at entrance

Site: We must take advantage of our property to project an attractive and welcoming feeling. People driving by should know if "someone's home." Therefore, we want some parking in front with plenty of handicap parking spaces and a covered drive-through drop off/pick up area. We want to see the building from the road and preserve the youth soccer fields in front. We envision windows in the worship space looking out onto evergreen trees, but with minimal incoming natural light. Users of the building and property should be inspired by the beauty of God's creation (a great sunset spot).

Some particulars:

• Depending on cost and site layout, we like the idea of the youth rooms and mission/outreach room in some type of walk-out basement.
  
• The storage areas would be spread throughout to be near each appropriate space for easy access
  
• Worship space should be multi-function with moveable seating arranged in a semi-circle around a semi-circular stage, 2 projection screens, wall space to hang banners, wired for everything, non-carpeted flooring for sports use, with adjacent room for A/V equipment
  
• Residential non-commercial kitchen adjacent to entry/fellowship area and near worship/multi-function room
  
• Handicap friendly throughout
  
• Wider corridors than code minimum
  
• Outdoor patio off entry foyer designed as a natural gathering/visiting area
  
• A shower in a unisex bathroom
  
• 11 total Greenhouse/school classrooms using accreditation standards from NAEYC, all with sinks and wired for audio to monitor worship
  
• Greenhouse/school classrooms will include a nursery and adjacent nursing room both wired to monitor worship via TV.
  
• Wire as many rooms as possible for Ethernet/phone jacks, etc
  
• Nursery, sleeping and nursing rooms all adjoining and close to worship space
  
• Nursery - kindergarten rooms will have bathrooms and Dutch doors
  
• Children's gathering room wired for everything including power-point presentation, microphones, sound system. To also be used as music/art room for school, perhaps
  
• Resource room/library for school
  
• Dedicated separate storage rooms for school and Greenhouse
  
• School office with adjoining reception/secretary area adjacent to classroom area
  
• Reception office with windows into entry foyer to advertise that "someone's home."
  
• Dedicated storage room with individual closets for outside groups (Boy Scouts, food bank, etc.)
  
• Glass panels in back of worship area so parents with unhappy children could directly view worship from foyer area as well as from nursery (via TV)
  
• Minimum total square footage of 15,000

Additional considerations regarding potential school:

Determine the feasibility of establishing a preschool (and possibly kindergarten, in case that matters for code) in a TEMPORARY site until Phase 1 is completed. Two potential sites are 1) a portable classroom on the church property (need to determine where this would be located on the master plan) or 2) in the Evergreen House, after renovations (two major issues seem to be a fire alarm system and 2 bathrooms, one handicapped accessible). Questions to be answered include:

• Given the building plans, which site would work best?
  
• What are the costs of getting either site up to code for a preschool?
  
• Timeline for Special Exemption-approval needed by Feb. for a Fall opening, so what year would that be-2004? 2005?
  
• What is estimated completion time of building? That will drive cost-effectiveness of using a temporary facility for 1,2, or 3 years or not at all

Phase II

Phase II would include a sanctuary for 500 people, additional school classrooms to expand through high school and a school gym.