 I have to take us out of practice. All right. Here we go. Okay. Welcome everyone. This is a recording of the Jones library building committee subcommittee known as the outreach subcommittee. And at this time I would like to let everyone know that this meeting is again being recorded and will be posted to the town of Amherst YouTube channel shortly. I'm turning things over to the chair Alex Lafave. Great. Thank you. Thank you everybody for attending. So we don't have a quorum of the outreach subcommittee so I don't know if we can just call this a public forum which was the intent I'm not sure is that okay. I don't need to call a meeting to order we're just going to say it's a public meeting or a public forum on this topic. As long as there aren't any votes taken I think we're okay with that there's no deliberation. Yeah, no we're not deliberating so great. So I don't know whether one at least wants to say hi and that you're here and who you are because this is a recording in case somebody who doesn't watch our meetings regularly doesn't know who they are so I'm Alex Lafave. I am Jones Library trustee and I am the chair of the Jones Library building committee which is a town committee. Outreach subcommittee. And today's meeting is the first of two public forums where we're inviting the public to give us feedback regarding the bathrooms and I'll get into how that can happen in a minute but in the meantime, Sharon if you want to introduce yourself. Yeah, hi everybody. Thank you for being here. My name is Sharon Sherry and I'm the director of the Jones Library month. I'm on the building committee. Thank you Alex and Austin. I'm Austin serratum a member of the building committee. And I see that amica is joining so we are now actually a quorum so I guess now I'll, should I call them an official meeting to order Angela. Okay, so seeing a quorum I'm going to call the buildings and facility wrong committee, the Jones library building committee. Outreach subcommittee sorry it's after vacation to order it. So, seeing a quorum. If you could let me know that you're present that would be great. Alex wave I'm present Boston. Present. Anika. Good morning. Good morning. Great. And then we also have with us, Craig, if you want to introduce yourself. Sure. Thank you Alex. I am Craig to Carlo I work for Collier's project leaders. We are the owners project manager on this project. So without further ado, I'm going to ask, I think Sharon, you have the presentation. If you want to go ahead and load that up. Great. So kind of put it in presentation mode if you could. It's a PDF so I can't. Gotcha. Okay, that's fine. Thank you. We'll screen maybe I don't know. So if you want to advance to the next slide then. So, just a quick overview. The Jones library building committee, which is a town committee has approved putting all user restrooms throughout the renovated and expanded library. And behind that is all user restrooms benefit the widest range of people, including parents with children of different gender, people with disabilities who may require an accompaniment of an attendant of a different gender as well as gender diverse people. Multistall all user restrooms have been found to maximize space as well as minimizing bathroom lines for everybody. Yay. There's a link in this presentation to a site called stalled it's actually a site created by a group of architects who are working in the space to advance design and understanding and information around all user restrooms and so the stalled is actually a link which will be able to find in several places. The next slide. I should have sorry I should have prefaced we do have several attendees. So, if at any point. Somebody has a question they want to ask feel free to raise your hand and then I'll ask Angela to let me know stop my talking and you're welcome to come on in and ask your question. This is the preliminary design that the architects find gold Alexander presented to the building committee. And so all bathrooms in the renovated expanded library will be, as I said all user restrooms. The first floor if you walk in on amity the second floor third floor will all be single occupant restrooms. The multi stall restroom that will have will be at the garden level, which is basically the sort of the community space of the library. Because at present in the schematic design that's where you have the large meeting room, the Burnett art gallery Civil War tablets room, the special collections exhibit so all of those so this will be the restroom for that garden level entrance. The design as it's been presented to us has multi stalls those red dotted lines or not walls but I guess the idea is, should we change our mind you could add walls. So this is the initial design we haven't really gotten beyond just seeing this particular suggested design at this point. What the architects have asked us to look at is style of stalls so these are three options so these pictures are not pictures of, you know, are we choosing red doors gray doors or brown doors are we choosing white floors black floors or brown floors they're simply looking at the style of stalls so there are three styles standard semi private and maximum privacy. And so the standard privacy is what probably most people are used to seeing the divider and the stall doors stop 12 inches above the floor. They're the least expensive, but they're also the least private. So from a library concern, we've heard concerns from the staff. We, we do know that we have people who engage in drug usage, and often the library as a free and open space can be a place where people who have addiction issues may wind up using drugs. And so part of what the library is having to balance is making sure that all patrons are safe and if someone is using drugs and potentially would overdose. You know what's the way to make sure that those patrons with addiction issues are safe so don't know exactly what that looks like but it is something that we have to consider when we're thinking about bathroom spaces. The semi private has more privacy obviously than the standard the stall doors and dividers can be anywhere between four to eight inches from the floor versus the 12. They're, as you would expect a little bit more expensive but they have some balance in terms of privacy and security concerns. The maximum privacy, which is often what you see in all user restrooms, certainly what you see throughout Europe and most countries outside of the United States. It's where you have divider install doors that extend fully from the floor to the ceiling. So the thing in the United States is we have different codes than other countries and so when we use a maximum privacy, it requires a floor drain light fixtures and sprinkler and each stall, which obviously makes for a more expensive bathroom to create. So it's the most private most expensive but also, as I stated earlier, some library staff has expressed concerns potentially about using doors that are fully, fully closed, fully private. Next slide. So there are a couple of pictures, just to give people senses of so these are some other bathrooms from three different public institutions around the country and their design that they used for an all user multi stall restroom. Not suggesting these are the designs we have or should have but just to give people a sense, because I think many people have not ever used an all user multi stall restroom that's actually designed I think what most people have had access to our standard or what used to be typical standard bathrooms where the signs have been removed and then everybody can can use them which is different than when you're designing it from scratch so this particular design is used at a synagogue. Next slide. This is a design at a university where they're using frosted glass and you know on little shapes. Next slide. This is a design at an elementary school, not our elementary school but at an elementary school, which just takes another avenue where you're leaving sort of the bathroom open for visibility but closed doors for privacy. Next slide. So the timeline for the decisions on the bathroom we're having today's public forum. And then we'll have another one next Tuesday in the evening at 6pm. This is a survey, which is available and can be filled out it's like a two second survey it's very quick. We opened it up on December 22. We're going to let it run until January 15. We've already started getting responses in on the survey. And then I'll talk about that in a minute. This is a survey, which is the Jones library building committee slash design meeting discussions and Craig you can correct me if I'm wrong but I think we have the 19th and the 26th slated as possible days where we might discuss the bathroom. Like these are all still possible dates. And that's a 430 meeting and then there's another meeting February 2 or ninth where a vote could possibly be made so those are all public meetings that may have bathroom discussions. So that's a fluid depending on what we get from the architects and what's discussed. Next slide. So in terms of sharing your opinion so these are the questions, basically in the survey asking if people have used a multi saw all user restroom, what they like or not like if they'd seen one. We are asking people to vote on the stamp the style of doors of standard semi private maximum privacy. We're also asking to share any thoughts about any features or design elements that you'd like to see in the bathroom. And then the tell us a little bit about yourself is just asking some questions, you know, age group, etc. So we have a sense of who's who's responding to make sure we're getting the widest net possible of public response in that survey. Next slide. So this is a link to the survey, which if you, I don't, I mean, it's yeah you can click on it so it's basically just as you'll see there's another link to stalled, and then these are the questions that you can go through so most of the yeah, that's the link to stalled. So there's a video here there's a lot of different designs so if people are interested and want to learn a little bit more about potential designs they can click on that. So, we created a padlet just like we did for the first round of open of public comments. And so this is if you visited our past padlet is very similar. So there's a link to the stalled video, there's a link to the survey so you can actually access the survey, which is at the top rate, you scroll up sharing. So there's a link to the survey there you can go from there as well and scroll down. This is. So here's a link to the presentation we're doing now. And people can vote here as well if they want so there's sort of a star rating system so if you scroll down a little yeah exactly you can do that. This also allows people to add their own pictures. So if you scroll down. These are the same designs, but you'll see. Yeah, so if you so right so this bottom left somebody added this. This is created by us. So somebody clicked on the little plus mark in the middle of the screen. And then they uploaded a video by probably clicking on the three dots which allows them to upload things. And then they wrote that they liked that particular design for privacy visibility and access so this is just one more way for people to share right and then you can upload a photo. There's one more way for people to share comments you'll see there's already some comments in here. I think a couple people have already written on right yes so it's not right so somebody was commenting on the design but it wasn't the design it's just the stall but that's okay that happens. Yeah, so that's one other way that people can provide feedback. So same things we've been doing before which is info at Jones library click on that it's an email people can send in comments via email if they'd like. And then there's the submit the comment form, just a reminder to folks if you use the submit comment form it's anonymous so if you ask me a question or ask us a question we can't respond to you. And track your email so if you want us to give you a response then using the other email is probably the better way to go. We've also uploaded the padlet and the survey on all the public computers at the Jones library so anyone who's using the public computers has access to that and can quickly do that and I think that's it. Yeah, that's it. So, I don't know if anyone has any questions, thoughts, comments, and I see also that will Fernandez has joined us up. Oh, I just wanted to say thank you for putting this together. Happy New Year first but thank you for putting this together I love how, you know, again, it allows for the public to add their comments, and, you know, it allows for engagement and just share opinion so thank you. Thanks. It was nice because we already had the platform set up so it was nice to. I love how you continued with it. Thanks. Okay. Don't know if anyone in the public wants to come into the room and ask questions or make comments or share thoughts. Welcome to come on in I see we have four people in the audience. Okay. So, unless anyone else has any questions or thoughts. That's, that's it just that's how people can can access things and we'll continue to seek public comment get it over to the building committee and the design committee and we'll go from there. Great. Thank you all for attending thank you in the audience those of you who joined us and appreciate everyone's time. Thank you so much. Right. Thanks. Thank you all.