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The living quarters on both the 2nd and 3rd floors will, of
course, be brought up to date and be made more useful and livable
for the President, his family and guests.
Corrections,so far as is possible to provide adequate toilet
rooms for functions of consequence, have becn placed in a mezzanine
below the ground floor in the newly created space.
Service elevators to properly service the building are planned.
TRUMAR
Fire stairs - stairways have been redesigned to conform to
AROHIVES and "NATIONAL AND
RECOROS
SERVICE'"
modern fire exit requirements.
Main stairs - main stairs have been somewhat modified to enter
from the main lobby so as to better serve official function.
It is planned to thoroughly aircondition the building and to
provide it with an up-to-date communications and public address sys-
tems.
As soon as the major decision had been reached, preparations were
made for the awarding of a contract for construction. The fact that
the Commission was prepering to consider bidders was publicly adver-
tised and forms sent to those interested to fill out setting forth
their organizational make-up, financial statement and other qualifica-
tions for consideration as bidders. After the returns were received
and screened, first by P.B.A. and then by the Commission, fifteen of
these were considered to meet the proper qualifications and these
were asked to subwit a figure on a "fee" basis. The form submitted
to these contractors vas unusual for a fee contract, as it included
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