21.   A citizens committee and a new chief executive officer, Jim Monahan, campaigned to reopen it.

22.   The board also recently named Ramon Cortines, a former superintendent in San Francisco and New York City, to lead a citizens oversight committee.

23.   The designs will be reviewed by a citizen advisory committee.

24.   Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made the decision on Friday, overruling a citizens advisory committee that opposed the choice proposed by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts last month.