@dave-biddle, appreciate your help!
Will contact you directly, thank you!

Your club, your decision, your structure,

I wish you all the best!

If I only may show you this from your neighborly Sylmar club, for inspirational thoughts;

I like the version at Sylmar shown on the previous post.  http://shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=645&sid=cf4defda63c70c3ca14cefc42cd6c7fc

It has some architectural beauty along with function.

I attempted this comment before, but I’ll try to be more clear.

This poll seems to be trying to pick a single solution when we haven’t even settled on a general type of design.  The results are likely to be very unclear to everyone involved.  We have 3 general types of design (maybe 4 with the post above regarding Sylmar):

1) Open metal structure (4 variations)

2) Swooping structure with more enclosed space (2 variations)

3) Structure with a deck

How will anyone be able interpret the results?  Getting bound up in color, slope of roof, or even the specifics of which tasks we can find expertise within our ranks, all seem very pre-mature until we have a chosen a general design.

My 2 cents…

Option 1 – structure looks reliable and customizable in future. Modular construction is the way to go.

Dear Alan,
as mentioned, Option-7 is open for reconsiderations like size and even those items you mentioned, it is a modular system, and can be very easily adjusted to our final needs.

I hope/agree that this is a general decison first and hope we all get a chance to revisit some details once it is chosen.

I just wanted to address Jai Pal’s concern and clear up some of the missunderstandings, misstatements and ambiguity of the steel structures in regards to costs, and that it is doable with the amazing manpower we have.

We were considering an observation platform, something like a cascaded roof, but given the scorching heat in summer, nobody would sit on such platforms, on top of all the heat coming up from below.

I myself was shocked at how expensive this all is, but this is due to the tariff wars and Covid, any such structure is now at least 2-3 times as expensive than just a few years ago.

Thanks for your inputs, please keep them coming.

Jimmy:

Nothing in particular towards Option 7 or suggesting modifications.  It just seems unlikely that this current poll can yield much in terms of moving the process forward.  With votes for an open metal building scattered across 4 alternatives, and votes for the swooping, more enclosed structure split 2 ways, hard to see how there will be much clarity in the results.

Of course I could be entirely wrong and there is overwhelming support for 1 option.  Perhaps there is a plan (that I missed) to whittle down the alternatives (maybe a re-vote on the top 2 or 3 options).

Suggestions and offers of donations and assistance are coming in, so we are doing something worthwhile.

Jimmy:

My thoughts were less suspicious.  We fortunately have an actual architect to bring us options.  In fact the work already donated would probably cost somewhere in the high 4 or low 5-figures to get us the options, renderings, and pricing if we had to go contract for it.  If he brings us a design with a $57K price tag I have every confidence it can be built for that (well, other than the generally crazy price increases we are seeing in building materials, but that impacts all options).

My concern was that the structure of the current vote/poll seems unlikely to lead to a meaningful result.  Hopefully I’m proven incorrect in that assessment.

We have a LOT of work to do to get a new structure.  Let’s get the oars moving in one direction and appreciate the contributions, thoughts, ideas, offers to volunteer and donations from all the members of our team.

Good luck to us all,

Alan