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As plans for the council to build it out progress, there remains something of a split among councillors as to what would be positive, and what would be possible.
The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.
Archaeologist Patrick Wallace, who led the 1970s excavation of the site, said he would love to see the area fully excavated – but he doesn’t support the demolition plans.
“People are going ballistic,” says Gayle Cullen Doyle, on Tuesday on the phone. “It's really after rattling them.”
Richard Shakespeare recently held a closed-doors briefing for councillors, giving them a presentation that was watermarked so they could be caught if they shared it.
It's generally more environmentally friendly to renovate existing buildings than to abandon them to the wrecking ball, but other public organisations could follow suit.
When a councillor tried to raise the project at the monthly meeting Monday, he was given 10 seconds.
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.