if you're speaking we can bring it to you or you can come up and really excited about the turnout my name's a lot of blanchard i work in the city manager's office i'm managing this project for the city we're calling it so whose face is twenty twenty eight gauge because twenty twenty is when this building is proposed to open meaning it will open and i say proposed only because there is a lot of approvals but that is the schedule that we're working with and it's to create a library and city hall in one building on one site i wanted to introduce jennifer murray in case you have not met her before although you all should of she's the library director and if the board of trustees moving this project forward and i really appreciate the work that they've done and then there's a few folks who are on the foundation or on a library advocacy committee and if they could stand up to  and then i'm sort of here representing city hall so donna and and to some degree all of you because it's your building so i'm going to i'm going to go through and i'm going to introduce the team that will be working with you on this project in a moment and do you  have an introductory slide also ok so you know i know that the library feasibility study was first done in two thousand and six we redid it in twenty thirteen and we also started looking at a program for city hall and looking at recreation needs we continued to talk about the need for a library the library and gage envisioning exercises  started at the library make some noise campaign so there's been a big effort to understand what a library is about the needs are and where this community is going in that respect so last summer we were able to  get a property owner to agree to give us an option on their land and so and i'm going to and so we have an option on about a half an acre in the heart of city center on market street have just completed their major environmental permits for that site and then just entrance to the record market central school it's right here currently and the future it will be on a new street  so this is our standard process for public projects in the tip district we start with the project kickoff workshop which is this week there's a purpose a need that's developed and adopted by the planning commission and in this case the library board of trustees that will occur in february and then there are a turn it is presented for review that will occur in march they will be tested against the purpose and need but also given to you  comments on feedback and then in this project we're doing something a bit special we're also bringing immediately after the alternatives once one is recommended by the architectural team they will then present it to you again the following week on tuesday and so then in april once the cost estimate is complete the project will be presented to the city council for indorsement and moving on to the next step which is design so this is the outreach plan for this project this is the whole schedule it obviously begins now it will be at the so you can see the city council meeting at the beginning voting will be in you some the same questions that we asked today we may be asking other questions will be putting our material up there and you can get to it by w w south burlington v t dot gov and i will and so there will be a link from our main page it's going to go through the blog so go through until you get to a page that has a lot of questions about the project and a lot of answers if you don't feel like you're having getting enough answers keep clicking through and you'll get to it but all the pages will be about who will put the most recent information at the front but you may have to go in to get the whole project page so that's it i'd like to introduce the design team it's led by steve roy he's a south barely ten resident we had a l intensive request for qualifications very competitive process we had eight teams submit their qualifications at least and we narrowed it down to four and they  by far blew everyone out of the water by with their team so they are very strong in sustainability and they partnered with a team that is extraordinarily strong in libraries dennis humfrey at the back of the room bringing a chair over to somebody has worked on a ton of libraries so we're really excited to have them here and i'm going to give them my do thank you alona and thank you everybody for coming out here today i appreciate the words of a lot of it it takes it really takes a large team of people to put a building together but it takes a large group of of members of the city to to help make that building something that's special and that's why we're here tonight and again on saturday it's really to gather feedback we want your opinions regardless  of where you stand on the issue we have a presentation that dennis is going to go through and there's a series of boards that that ideas can be posted on to so we really want you to participate and a members of the team that although they're not here tonight are really a key part of getting this project where we need to in the end we want to create a livable community through buildings that ennobled the site inspire the participants sustain the resources and bring joy to the users part of bringing joy to the users is knowing what brings joy to the users and we can fill in a lot of blanks but it's nice to find something special about south burlington that can really make it  we're kind of the third generation of partners that are creating kind of a women lanphier that is forward thinking more sustainable and really looking to make our project something special this is one of our latest projects which is kind of a demonstration piece for us it's been received multiple awards for its design its construction and its sustainability so it's a project that represents the types of elements that we want to bring to bring to the city of south burlington as well  just a few views of that building in particular where we go also includes is performance spaces and types of spaces that may be useful in pertinent to the building that we're proposing this is also a building that  experience going to pass it off to dennis humphries now he's a principal at humphries poly architects and he's from denver colorado and really can do some special library work that's that's why he's here thank you all right i'm i'm really excited to be here it's an honor to be working with steve in his firm and and in particular designing a new library and civic center city hall for you all as you can see our libraries come in all sizes shapes and forms and we've worked on over ninety but there are no two that are alike we always try and find out what's so special in that community and i'm going to show you tonight a bunch of images of libraries from around the world some that we've designed and some that we've not designed and we're going to want to try and get a sense of what you might like in terms of the library for south burlington sometimes i show things to people in communities and they say oh we don't want anything like that and that's what we're here to find out is what you don't want yes sure i will i will try to do that i will tell you that a majority of what i'm going to show you are libraries but we are going to talk about some city hall  all of you should have these post notes all right so this is how you're going to communicate with us tonight and we have plenty more so if you need some we have them a few new to writing utensil we have those as well  these are kind of there's only so much room you can only write so much however it's great to see some young folks here because of things you like and i notice that there are a number of these post it notes back there so the idea is i'm going to ask you to write down what you like and what you don't like and if for some reason you write one idea down per per sheep and then you go to the next one and you go to the next one and when we get done with all of these units and more we'll do that in in about forty five minutes we're going to get up and we're going to put them on the white paper in the back of the room ok so we're going to go pretty fast we've been very fortunate we work with some great clients libraries are very exciting projects and are our projects have been on the cover of library journal magazine which is the professional magazine of the of the professional of the library profession one of the libraries that we did that was very revolutionary is called the anything berries and they were very bold and it they were one of the worst performing libraries in the country and they decided they had nowhere to go but up so they threw out all the rules changed everything and it's a very exciting series of libraries in colorado and then we also  i may have to run over there we go this is in lewisville colorado a library in historic district a two story library with with parking below grade this was the transformation of a corporate office building into a library that was honored as one of the top libraries in the country about four years ago and then not only are libraries are big and not our libraries have great budgets we didn't have any money for landscaping on this one but we thought it was ok because this is facing the the west face of the grand teton in wyoming so i kind of call it the one one room schoolhouse but it's a library so very special place they actually have cross and nordic center that is part of the library so it's in the midst of the nordic track so i would this is a quote by an entire an architect the talks about why we're doing this and you know if you go back and you think about the if you travel to italy or to europe you think about all the wonderful things that were planned a number of years ago and all the great spaces that are there and it's because somebody took the time and effort to to plan out the city and so that's what we're doing today we've got this great opportunity to create this city center with a new library and a city hall and so we want to make sure that we do it right so that the future generations will look back on us and say we did the right thing so this is the other reason we do it is that you know in today's world the library is the most trusted institution in the country in terms of you know if you want a resource you want something you call the reference librarian or you call the library and you ask and you will real you'll get the information it's not on the internet all times as we know so  what we believe is that there are there's a time now where libraries are more relevant than ever many people think that they're not people aren't coming to the library because we don't need to come get books however statistics are starting to show that the younger generation has a much much stronger affinity to the hard book than than my generation we also know that people are coming to the library for multiple reasons beyond just books and so they're using their services and programs more than ever and our communities are going to continue to change and libraries are going to remain very very important we like to think that libraries are like starbucks a place for the community to come together to big social connections you don't have to buy the coffee but the most important thing is anybody can use anybody and everybody can come to the library and use the resources so that it's such an important public institutions and so what we like to think is that libraries are shifting from being a warehouse of books to becoming what we call a participatory learning organisation now ther e it's a place where you can come and do things and not just get a book and walk out go home but it's a place where you can come and do things and i'm going to show you lots of examples of that in the presentation tonight  so this is a real quick a timeline i know you can't read it but the idea is that a number of years ago eight hundred fifty is where we started here up to today library services have grown and grown and grown and they're going to continue to grow and offer more things the original libraries were founded on books and maps and the newspapers and magazines and then it's just exploded in the one nine hundred and two thousand and terms all the things that you can get at the library so it's just as you know a very important institution in our community so i'm sure you all have dinner but i want to know i'm sorry so i want to tell you a short story because this is what i want you to do tonight i want you to think about the library in a totally different context than what you may think today so a young mother and her daughter were making meatloaf and as they were they prepared to meet  we're going to put it in the oven the mother cut the end off just like this and the young daughter said to the mom why did you do that and she said i don't know my mother did it that way well let's call grandma so they called grandma and they said grandma why do you cut the  meat loaf grandma said i don't know that's how my mom taught me to do it so they called great grandmother and ask great grandmother great grandmother if why she cut the end of meat loaf and great mother responded well that's silly my panel isn't big enough so first several generations they have been cutting the end off the meatloaf for reasons that were no longer relevant so when we start thinking about the library we want you to take the blinders off and i want you to think about what it could be not what it is today but what it could be and what it could be in this community so one of the first things i want to talk of a little bit about is i know that there probably are some cherished things in either the existing city hall or library that are important and you know not being from south burlington it's important that i understand this so if there were one thing there or one space that you like in the library and i know the library just moved but if there is one thing that's very special i want you to write that down on a post ok one thing these first several questions are very very simple there's just one word one thing so if there's something that you like if you like the way you enter the building you like the way the children's areas that the library you like the way the council chambers are today you like anything of that sort so the next one is i'd like to know one word that best describes south burlington so one one word that best describes south burlington we're going to put it on a page back  there i asked this question this morning with the library staff and they said cozy confused opportunities i mean there is no right answer i just want to get it from you because it'll come back and will understand very clearly what the objective is yes yes always separate posts so feel free we what is your favorite place in south burlington how could be red rocks could be the mall a lot of people respond to this question when you ask them home which is fine but we're just trying to get