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Wednesday, February 25 (10:30 a.m.): Rossmoor residents are invited to submit questions for discussion at a Town Hall-style gathering on Friday, March 6 starting at 10 a.m. at the Event Center centering on a plan to renovate spaces at Dollar House and Gateway Complex, with the eventual goal of consolidating RWC and RPM management at Gateway.

RWC General Manager Jeff Matheson will answer as many questions as possible at the hour-long March 6 town hall. Matheson said residents’ suggestions at this event, and during this process, could be incorporated into whatever plan, if any, is eventually endorsed by the RWC Board.

“We’re at the beginning stages of all of this; all plans are still being worked out and evaluated; nothing is set in stone,” Matheson said.

Questions to be discussed at the forum are now being accepted via email to rwcboard@rossmoor.com and will be taken during the gathering as well. Matheson is also accepting questions at his work email address, jmatheson@rossmoor.com

The basic version of this plan, as it stands now, would see major renovations at Dollar House to create more meeting space there. Some of that space would be on a renovated second floor, which would be accessed by a newly installed elevator. Moving to that added meeting space at Dollar would be groups that currently meet in Multipurpose Rooms 1, 2 and 3 in Gateway’s Building F.

Moving those meetings to Dollar would free up Building F to become the new home of the Rossmoor Library, Redwood Room and the Rossmoor Computer Center. Then, the RPM staff (including Accounting) would move from its building atop Rockview Drive to remodeled (and physically united) Gateway Buildings B and C. Current plans have the Oak Room remaining in Building C.

Such consolidation is a top project recommended within RWC’s Facilities Master Plan, adopted in 2022. Matheson and other RWC officials have said consolidating the various departments will improve workflow and enable a “one-stop shopping” experience for residents needing to work with representatives of various departments.

The RWC Planning Committee is set to recommend to the RWC Board that an architecture firm, ELS Architecture and Urban Design, be paid up to $157,000 for a study of these proposed renovations.