HOUSE BILL REPORT

SSB 5935

BYSenate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Williams, Cantu, Niemi and Lee)

Creating the capitol campus design advisory committee.

House Committe on State Government

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (6)

      Signed by Representatives Todd, Chair; Anderson, Vice Chair; R. Fisher, R. King, Morris and O'Brien.

Minority Report:  Do not pass. (3)

      Signed by Representatives McLean, Ranking Republican Member; Hankins and Silver.

House Staff:Barbara McLain (786-7135)

AS PASSED HOUSE MARCH 1, 1990

BACKGROUND:

The Capitol Campus Design Advisory Committee was established in 1984 by executive order of Governor Spellman.  The committee acts in an advisory capacity to the Department of General Administration on design and landscaping of state capitol facilities.  The original committee consisted of an architect as chair, a landscape architect, an urban planner, a community representative, and the secretary of state.

The 1989 capital budget act expanded the duties of the committee to include advising the State Capitol Committee, added a second architect and four legislators, and eliminated the community representative.

The committee has never been officially established in statute.

SUMMARY:

The Capitol Campus Design Advisory Committee is established in statute as an advisory group to the State Capitol Committee and the Department of General Administration.

The governor appoints two architects, a landscape architect, and an urban planner to the committee and appoints the chair and vice- chair.  The secretary of state and one member of each caucus of the House and Senate are also on the committee.

The committee is to review and make recommendations on programs, planning, design, and landscaping of state capitol facilities. Specifically, the committee will review:

            1)The process of solicitation and selection of professional design services, including design-build proposals;

            2)Compliance with the capitol campus master plan;

            3)Design, siting, and grouping of capitol facilities and their impact on local communities;

            4)The relationship of overall facility planning to comprehensive long-range plans for urban development in Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, and Thurston County; and

            5)Landscaping plans and access to the capitol campus and buildings.

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Senator Al Williams, prime sponsor; and Wendy Holden, Department of General Administration.

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    The committee has been very valuable in an oversight and liaison role with General Administration and the State Capitol Committee.  It works to make the best, wisest, and most beautiful use of the capitol campus.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.