get started tonight our meeting is intitled design workshop and we want to have most of the two hours focused directly on that before we get started i asked that we're going to call the meeting to order at seven o two  we have a quorum for the building committee and  be meeting minutes pay a couple bills we've got to do that and then move right into the design workshop we have three sessions will explain how the they're going to work and i hope you brought your creativity and ready to be inspired so first of all  we just passed out two sets of meeting minutes to the building committee members i'd like to get those approved the first one is for our meeting number thirty which was on december seventh school committee's presentation so i just want to call your attention to the fact that after this meeting we're going to take a bill as a building committee a break we'll reconvene we can look over here at our next meeting in january ninth come right in there you could there well there you go pointing so we're going to meet with the school committee on tuesday january ninth at the belmont high school auditorium right over here and the superintendent his group will be talking about district configuration solutions outside of the high school decision or beyond the high school decision so the entire k through eight and that is a public meeting where they'll be public comments john am i right right so be able to hear all of belmont communities comments that's going to be followed two days later by january eleventh traffic presentation should be very interesting we have our traffic consultants coming up they've been working with you on different configurations on the site  i should say that different solutions on the site and then finding mitigation measures that will see what they can do as far as the results of traffic improvements so that will be january eleventh and that's at the wellington high school cafeteria  cafeteria and so i'll just leave it there january ninth gerry levin put on your calendar very interesting why why you say that is because superintendent has been working on the great configurations with his series of meetings and the building committee has been working on our effort coming up with the right design solution for the site and on january twenty third will be together making a decision on both configuration school department we voting on that and the building  committee will be voting on what the right design solution is and we want to proceed with on site ok so with that this today we're not going to really have public comments because the entire meeting is about public comments with design workshop so the format and book and i will start to explain that now is we have three sessions that we set up today and and at all of them are interactive so it will be an opportunity for those that want to interact to talk  about some of the things that they think are important and if those that don't feel like they have it want to interact with small groups or otherwise and just want to observe that is fantastic setback i think you're going to have a great show so brooke so good evening everyone  really excited to get the feedback of this gathering tonight and tonight we're going to look for your feedback thoughts aspirational visions on this is a first session on some key spaces so what we'll do is will prompt you with this space and then we're going to ask you to raise your hand and give us your thoughts so we'll start with the first space and we're going to work quickly because we don't have we're going to ask you to get into groups and we're going to do what we call a mash up how will different spaces how you put different spaces together that don't normally go together and how that how would that create educational cities in the building so that's the building that is internal you might put art next to use ecarte next to science and what would that mean i'm going to ask you to write down your thoughts and report back and then the third session we're going to give you some of the site planning diagrams and we're going to ask you to mark them up take some markers take some trace stickies whatever you want to do and write your thoughts on that plan on that plan diagram we also are going to ask you to report back to probably only one per table so you might think about four of them but you might in fact report back on one so for these overachievers maybe up to two up to two i can see some over cheever's i know belmont has a lot of overachiever so will will will get there so we're going to start with the first one to raise your hand and yesterday we did this with the faculty we in fairness we had probably eighty seventy five to eighty faculty members but let's see with this so the first thing the first prompt is the learning commons how we emerged from the traditional library so give us your thoughts on that it might have to do with furniture uses daytime uses community uses except it's very open to learning comm so it's it was once what we once called a library you have one over here everybody knows what a library looked like but what's the library of the future how we emerge from the traditional library what might be in it do you have maker spaces in it do you have ok so you're talking about internet network ability to connect good one that's excellent come on yes you can yes ok sure no carol's and no not it isn't dark and there are no carol's good one yes some some individual space there might be some carols but the whole it won't be might not be a sea of carol's yes in the  perfect perfect so you're talking about small collaborative spaces as well as larger places for people to excell and that is that an area might be an alcove or something that's really good and that is a trend yes a learning cent so tutoring an area for tutoring learning getting skills ok excellent and what does that look like is it in a room or is it an area the sky i don't think they said books yes yes did they did they did say books thank you books yes did everyone here that are you picking that up on the right of materials you may have to continue to repeat it ok multimedia space so you might be a to do video you might be able to do hands on work ok good yes in the back perfect and i'm just going to repeat that a variety of furniture for different learning styles and for people to sit and work in different ways because everybody responds differently to different elements that's that's great some lounging yes or in the back media editing technology good that might go with the video production movable walls excellent right on the walls pin up i'm not repeating ability to write on the walls move the walls and pin up on the walls that's great yes windows natural ok extending the space to the outside that's excellent yes learning from the outside in what does that mean outside experts ok that's great so having a place where outside experts can come in teach guy mentor the students right yes that's good that's a great great thought so you're distributing maybe we're distributing the learning commons it's not just it's decentralize might be distributed yes or what are the hours of the library that seven thirty to three thirty right so when we say extended hours for work opportunities do we have time to go so we do have to go the next one well you know brooke i forgot to do something i remember some coaching i get from superintendent fail on that says before we start something make sure everyone knows why we're doing it and what the outcome this i didn't do that very well john so i'm going to sort of back up and do it now so why are we doing this because our design team needs to hear from belmont plain and simple so brooke and her team needs to understand what it is that goes into the and and this is all going back to brooks office the information that we got with principal richards got rolled up back to your office all this is going back to the office and what we're going to do is expect that on january sixteenth when we reconvene at another one of our and so this is not just to we're not just doing this to check a box we're doing this and we're probably going to do this several times the teacher said when you come back we finish i said what do you come back and talk to us we want we have more to tell you so the i've learned john that we called the central office but the the superintendent's office has been talking about focus groups and not just students but features and so forth so it hasn't hasn't really  week i forget exactly how we said it but let me just say that we took the block of clay the mass of the building the volume that we had to create and we put it on a site should t v but now we have to start to mold that clay inside for the rooms in the spaces and we need the users were all stakeholders in this but as i said to the teachers dance group that the teachers really are the users and we want to hear from the students or the users who want to hear from them and the oh i'm sorry you are to have that you know dad saying he's already started that with the high school student we don't want to give the middle school students ok we have so we should move on i think we should move on because we're going to be pressed for time  next next prompt we're going to give you is a collaboration how do people collaborate teachers to teachers students to teachers and students way or how do they need to collaborate what are the tools what are the environments go ok so you so it was mentioned to have just very traditional spaces without a lot of technology pencils paper and places to get your hands dirty and think so that's good  and is that teacher to teachers teach tell me what what is it for all scar so in spaces off of hallways so carders don't have to connect they can be little environments for people to hang out and collaborate yes ok right so the opportunity for multiple classes to work together it might mean that we have operable walls between classes to increase the spaces that what you're suggesting ok flexible furniture and you don't just see that do you just see that in the classrooms or cool itself ok so flexible furniture ok in the classroom being a collaborative space places for high school students to mentor grade seven and eight if they are in the building that's really great because that's i think part of the superintendents  ok great student help rooms and those can be small right excellent yes in the pink ok multiple ways to get around the building to connect spaces vertically right that w so there's a space in the lives so it's in the in the maybe library but then also ok ok next maybe an extension or maybe we're ok fair enough so brooke i'd like to i'm going to be the yes i'm going to be very timekeep right teleconferencing video conferencing projectors all of the order to get out into the work not just the community but the world one more one more come on ok ok fair enough these spaces should be flexible and have more the ability to be used in a variety of ways i said one more but lots of power outlets lots of power that's usually the number one thing every community says for so it was in first that's good ok we're going to move on this is easy the civic commons anybody knows what a civic commons might be ok this space and that was said yesterday by the faculty not just one large open space but a variety of spaces also in the i just want to go back to the commons the learning commons how about a cafe in the learning commons is that appealing anybody in maybe in different parts of the room right ok right you have to be careful so that was yes i like the small spaces but in fact a large room and serve other large purpose and we just have to talk about what those larger purposes are to know how to break it down and but he also should move on yes  more than one place for performances and small for small performances yes lots of windows connection to the outdoors yes exhibit space yes and lighting very important thing outdoor seating everybody likes see outdoor learning and outdoor spaces within this high school environment yes health and wellness walking path sit under a tree retreat ok good simple spaces simple just basic calming spaces integration with the community pa mean it's an ecosystem us it's calming and it's a really beautiful feature to this this site so you're suggesting that we take advantage of it probably a good idea yes right creating it involves creating an environment for the classes to go to so it's comfortable right yes so talking talk about greenhouse and learning let the building be a learning tool for sustainability and an environmental storage ship would that we're talking about a lot about yes  so look at the building and the site as a total system for sustainability learning and and storage ship yes beautiful i like that word it's a good word for design inspiring thank you nothing wrong with that  so create an environment in which the students have ownership of tending to it managing it and learning from it because that is what brings them along this journey with us and  yes yes but i hear ropes purposeful gardens but i came up with the future one of course but this is defense is a purposeful garden that it is curt connected to potentially the curriculum the that's a really good question and so the question is where does recycling come in compost food cans and it will have to be throughout the whole building it's part of we have to this but you might be able to catch that on belmont media belmont media because we had the whole me our whole entire last meeting was about sustainability so i think you should get that feed ok yes so the statement is and i'm going to rephrase it it's making me making learning this a bill and making systems visible so people can learn from and we showed some interesting pictures of that yesterday i got a couple more and then we're going to move on to are trying to get this through this tonight so i don't want to shut this down we're going to continue this dialogue and we'll have opportunities because our next session might kind of tie into this but before we go there brooke let's let's talk about what's on the wall on the back i forgot what you call these so on the wall we have what we call visual listening we have visual listening we this is the one to the third time we've done this with three different groups we did it in our visioning session which was the that had a lot of different pete we did it yesterday with the teachers and we're doing it today so it's real simple you look at the category and you put a do a red dot on something you don't like and a green dot on something you like if you've run out of dots put it check or a minus if you could indulge us if i don't know how many dots we have right now we use a lot in school right dan has so  this is something you could do during sessions or you know if you're just wandering around but that's not our next session it's just an opportunity to show us show or show design team building committee what things are very inspiring to and one thing if you just don't like so with that said session two what is ok so this one is you're going to have to get up for this one and break into groups and we have a six tables we have six tables which will be about chain we have about sixty people so probably art and music and the commons spaces like that and work we're going to we're going to ask you to do is put spaces together that you might not normally put together and tell us why you did it and why that would in hants the educational value of the academic environment so it's linking possibly nontraditional of spaces together to create to foster opportunities and types of learning and we're doing this in groups and i will ask you to do is i think we have about ten or fifteen minutes to work on this you could have multiple and we'd like someone people to come up from each will bring you back to this table we're going to take things up on the wall and people just to talk about why they presented the solution and what inspired him to do that so so tough so the tape to spaces the white piece of paper there's also paper on the wall on the glass we want you to write down why and if you want to do it next on the same piece of paper but we want we want you to give an argument as to why you put those two spaces together you can put as many as big spaces on the board you can focus on two or three whatever inspires your group but where interest  in why you did what you did and you know the writing doesn't need to be a plate narrative but that's the idea is that we're going to we're going to deliver these books take them back to our office and it would be very helpful reasons why are on the solution we could start seeing some patterns