 Bienvenido a todos, nuevamente el evento de esta noche, vamos a hablar sobre la remodelación de la biblioteca de la misión y como se había mencionado antes, tenemos servicio de interpretación al español para las personas que necesitan ver la misión de la misión. Thank you very much, bienvenidos a todos nuevamente el evento de esta noche, vamos a hablar sobre la remodelación de la biblioteca de la misión y como se había mencionado antes, tenemos servicio de interpretación al español para las personas que necesitan este servicio. En unos momentos se va a encender esa función y van a encontrar en la parte de abajo de la pantalla de zoom un icono de un globo o de un mundo, por favor denle click ahí y seleccionen el español como su idioma. Si ustedes están uniendo a este evento por intermedio de un iPhone o de una tableta van a encontrar un menú que tiene tres puntos suspensivos, denle click a ese menú y escojan interpretación idiomática y el español como su idioma. Muchas gracias. Go ahead and please start interpretation mode. Thank you Jose. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for making the time to join us for this meeting about the mission branch library renovation. My name is Catherine del now I am the chief of branches for the San Francisco public library. I'm joined today by Michael Lambert our city librarian by Kate Patterson the libraries public information officer by architect Andy stone from public works, as well as by some of our library staff, who are supporting us in the meeting. Including flow, but Todd, who is taking minutes of this evening's meeting. And he some Malat. Sorry, Anissa, Anissa Malati, who is one of our facilitators of the zoom event, and also Lisa Weddle, who is another one of the facilitators. We're on slide please. We're on slide to right now, which shows our agenda for the evening. Our plan is that I'll introduce myself and our team, which I've done, and then we're going to talk about where we've been so far and what some of the goals of the project are. I'll turn it over to my colleague Andy son from public works. He will share the final mission branch renovation plans, then Andy will pass it back to me to talk about our temporary library service plans for the mission community, and to share an update about the public art at the branch. And then finally, we will have an opportunity to hear your questions and your comments at the fifth portion of the meeting. Please. Branc slide three. The mission branch is a landmark Carnegie library. It opened to the public in 1915. Those of you who have lived in the neighborhood for a long time will remember that the mission branch was last renovated in 1997. At that time library service was very different from how it is now. The types of library services we can provide in the current mission branch. Additionally, the systems of the mission branch are at the end of their life spans. For these reasons, the library and the Department of Public Works did a feasibility study to inform the scope of this particular renovation project. We developed these guiding principles that you can see on on the screen for our library renovations. This is libraries for the 21st century. We think of libraries now as community convening spaces as a location where you can find books where you can access information using the internet, and materials in the branch, and where you can learn from the community and from engaged presenters, and through participation in the events that we have in the programs that we provide. When we say libraries for the 21st century, that's really what we're what we're thinking about some of the core ideas. Another of our guiding principles is that we want our buildings to have flexible and adaptable building designs. Our thoughts with this are that we want the building to be able to be used in a variety of ways. On the screen here you can see a beautiful Carnegie library that was restored in Philadelphia. You can see that the furniture is on casters and can be rearranged and that people can use the space in different ways, depending on what's going on in the branch. Over time, the, over time, the needs of the community might change slightly, and we don't need to renovate the entire branch to reconfigure some of the furnishings to best suit what we're doing in the branch that day. The movable furnishings and the changeable layout and that dynamic nature of the space and responsiveness is something that we really strive for with our library improvements for tomorrow, the lift projects, which includes our mission branch. That said, we also know how important it is to preserve our historic Carnegie libraries. And, as I mentioned, the mission branch is an historic landmark building, and particularly the, the beautiful reading room of the space is just glorious and we want to restore it to how it was, how it was when they came into it at the beginning of its, of its existence back in 1915. We also really want to be sure to be working within the city's historic preservation framework, which we have done. We want to incorporate monthly functional community meeting spaces, so adding a meeting room back into the mission branches are really important thing for us, and also even adding a small meeting room on the second floor. And then the final guiding principle is transparency and ease of way finding. The idea of this principle is that we want people to be able to come into the branch and easily move through the space to see as they walk through the door that the children's area is over to the right. And on the left is the, on the left is the community meeting space and then in front of them are the stairs to go up to the grand historic reading room on the second floor. As you walk through the door seeing the staff welcoming you, and you know those are the people to ask if I have some questions as you come up the stairs. So the second floor looking over being able to see that's where the staff are this is, I can orient myself I can find materials independently and I can get help from the really great staff of the mission branch. Next slide please. We're on the fourth slide now. Pre pandemic, the library hosted a number of community meetings in the mission branch. Our first round of community engagement took place in May and June of 2018. The community engagement began in January and January in March 2019. The community had the opportunity to participate. In addition to those library hosted meetings to participate in the civic design review committee and historic preservation Commission meetings in the summer of 2019, and at numerous library Commission meetings over the past few years. We've had opportunities to hear from community members like yourselves about your priorities for this renovation project. So what we've done is captured some of the key things that you shared with us and I just wanted to reflect those back to you so you knew what we were bearing in mind as we worked with Public Works to to design this new space. We heard from you that you were interested in increased flexibility and use of the space. You wanted us to maintain multilingual collections and services that having Spanish and English materials and Spanish and English staff and Spanish English library service as a whole was really important to the community. We heard that it was important to incorporate resiliency features into the building, thinking about the changing environment that we have here in San Francisco and thinking about how we can make the building more green and more energy efficient and also how we can respond to respond to climate changes. We heard that people were interested in restoring a meeting room to the branch. The original mission branch library had a meeting room. It did not have a children's room. When the children's room was added, the meeting room was taken away. We heard from the community that you wanted both. You wanted a great children's space, and you wanted a great meeting room. We heard that you really wanted improved program space for everyone and that meeting room program space community room is something that is really important and a great feature of our new building. We heard that you really wanted more public restrooms, and we expected to hear that because we've heard that from many mission patrons over the years. We heard that you wanted to see if we could expand the footprint of the branch to maybe have modest addition on the branch. And we heard that you wanted a dedicated teen space that a blue screen was not really sufficient for the teens in the community. And that's something that we had heard a lot from the staff as well. This is a pretty tall order fitting so much into a relatively small footprint. And I'm really pleased to share with you that our colleagues at Public Works have worked tirelessly and done amazing work, and have developed a final design that really fits the brief. We heard from you what you wanted, and we knew, and we heard from our staff what they wanted, and we knew what our goals were. And I'm just really impressed with the work that Andy Stone, architect from Public Works, and his team have done. And I'm going to turn it over to Andy now who will share with you the, the final plans, the building design of the Mission Branch. I'm Andy Stone from Public Works. And hopefully, we'll get to meet in person sometime I know I've probably met some of you. So Kathy mentioned a few of the reasons why we are doing the project there's really four key reasons. One is, by the way we're on slide five. And as we're putting it back the way it was, we're going to restore the historic entry and the stair to their original locations and get rid of the side door. Number two is we're adding program area and the form of a community room and new restrooms a teen area. And number three is we are responding to the needs of resiliency environmental resiliency and sustainability. And then number four is Kathy mentioned, we are replacing worn out building systems such as the elevator, and the HVAC systems of the building. Next slide please. This is slide six. I don't have a pointer so I'll just direct you on the page. The first couple of slides will be floor plans to building floor plans. This is the ground floor plan the main floor. This says number six at the bottom of the page that would be 24th Street to your left vertically on the page is would be Bartlett Street side of the building and to the right is orange alley side of the building, and then the top part of the page is the back of the building. So, now you're oriented. Probably the, the, the most notable feature of the buildings that now you'll enter the building straight at the front of the building at a new entry so where it says lobby, you'll see a pair of doors just below that. And that is, that's the original historic main entry of the building so we're, we're putting that back the way it was. You'll come into the building and directly in front of you will be a stair this in the same location and the same size as the original historic stair. And that that is right dead center as you come in you'll walk up that stair to the to the main reading room to your left will be a new feature which is a community room, and in the original building in 1914 there was a room called a lecture room. Later became a children's room in that area. And then later in the 90s when the building got renovated it became the lobby and the entry but now it's we're putting it back we're going to we're going to get that area out and restore the community room there. As you come in the lobby, there's a hallway down your left and that to your left and straight to the back the elevator is his back there it's in the same location it's in now. The reason it's in that location is because it's outside of the footprint of the historic reading room we didn't want the elevator landing inside the historic reading room. It is a welcome desk with three staff stations, including a children's librarian to the far right. Self service features self checks. There's a laptop lending kiosk and print stations in the lobby to the right is the children's room. And furthest over, you'll notice that the building is going to be expanded so we're going to, we're going to do an addition to the building, because we're taking up so much area with the community room and new restrooms, we needed to expand the building so the courtyard that you're familiar with on orange alley is going to receive a building addition where it says children. So that portion that's kind of outboard of the outboard of the historic wall will be an add on to the building. On this floor will have four restrooms there's currently three, there's one public restroom that you're you're probably all familiar with there's a staff restroom, and a family restroom now now we'll have two public restrooms, a staff and a family on this floor. I think that it covers it for slide six, which is the ground floor slide seven is the main floor. And so, in the middle of so again is oriented where it says seven that would be 24th Street, and to your right orange alley. In the middle of the of this rectangle in this image you'll see the stair and that stair is, it, you know, it comes up to the, to the main floor, and it lands and right where you land in front of you will be a display, a library display and above that is a public art piece which will talk about beyond that wall is a restroom someone had brought up that you land at a restroom but it's not true, there's a hallway to the left that you go in before you go to the restroom so you don't, you don't land straight at the restroom. And then, then you see the, the entire floor of the historic reading room will be the historic aspect of that room will either be maintained or restored, and the pieces that that aren't historic. So, we will be honoring that historic reading room, fully, including the perimeter book shelving, and so, and plaster work and lighting and things like that so it's going to be, and the existing windows will will all be the way they, they are now to the to the far right on this plan is is an area says teen room, and that teen room is is a new feature Kathy had mentioned before that any currently you you cordon you cordon this that off with some dividers that that get dismantled when when not in use. Now the teens will have a dedicated area that's age appropriate the suitable for homework study and, and things like that with other media inside the space. There's a study room on the upper left you see that that's that's a feature that is not currently in the library. And then there will be a staff break room. The furnishings on this floor will you'll get to see a picture of those a little bit later. I have a gesture of what what they're going to look like but they're going to be. They're going to be lower they're going to be more mobile, the rooms will be more flexible. To the far left you'll see there's these four rectangles, those are. Tables and chairs and these, if you see sort of eight dark rectangles that is public computing. And then there will also be a laptop lending kiosk on this floor which is the same as what you have now there's a laptop lending kiosk. That covers this for so next slide. So this is the roof plan, and the reason for showing you the picture of the roof is that we have, we're going to do solar panels so this is slide eight. And there are solar panels on the roof it's going to be about an 18 kilowatt system it's a relatively small system, but we'll have 18 kilowatts will have battery storage. And this is part of resiliency and sustainability strategy of the building so this building is part of a movement amongst city buildings towards electrification and there's an electrification ordinance now for for projects that we do. And the intense is that all of the fixtures and equipment on on the project are electric so if instead of a gas water heater, you would have electric water heaters. So there will be no more gas appliances of any any kind. And the reason for that is because city buildings are on hedge, hechy power, which is 100% renewable. So what it allows us to do is get rid of on site greenhouse gases. So move away, it's a national movement, but we're of course in San Francisco, we're ahead of the curve, and we're doing electrification on all of our buildings. The idea behind battery storage is that we can peak shave and charges batteries up at night when when when demand is less on the power grid, and then by day we can we can save power with the solar panels. Y there will be mechanical systems will will have air filtration, which will allow the building to stay open more days of the year when we have smoke events so that's been an issue, and they will also be the building will be entirely air conditioned, which is not just the children's room has an air conditioning system now. So that also will allow more open days for the library, currently in buildings that aren't air conditioned once they get above a certain temperature. They need to close because the staff can't work in this temperatures. So, and then it also offers a possibility of some some respite center functionality for this building. So that is a sustainability resiliency piece so that slide eight so next slide. So these are some interior views as a slide nine. This is the community room and the, you can see in the image, we're looking towards, we're looking towards 24th Street, and on your right there's a doorway, and that doorway is the current entry to the building. What it's going to be now it's going to be, it's going to be a connection to a fenced courtyard, which is going to be adjacent and sort of an adjunct space to this community room. So it's going to be a very nice space, where the current desk and staff offices are. On the left you see the three Montoya prints, they're kind of spread around the building now, but we're going to consolidate the three prints together as a triptych the way they were intended. In a niche within the community room. This is slide 10. This is at the other end of the community room, looking towards the, the children's room in the main lobby. On the left you see the Montoya prints, and then you get a sense of the visual transparency so where you see that window in the image, that's currently a concrete structural wall that we're going to open up so that that is one of the ideas The community room is a more connected space to the building that this room can be used in times less as a discrete community room and more as an integral community space that has the ability to function a differently a different times of day so it could be, it will, it will serve as a children's story time room. It could serve as a teen homework study area afterwards you can do any kind of conventional programming that you would in a community room, but the idea of more connectedness and more transparency is making the most of the limited square footage of the building so that's what you see here and a lot of our design intent. Next slide please. This is slide 11. This is a view from within the lobby, just inside the door of the community room, and you look at you look up the stair there and it's got a stone feature wall. It's the same. We've had this question before about the width of the stair and it is the same width as the historic stair. It's done in monumental finishes bronze and stone. It's going to be beautiful. You've got a desk that's flexible height adjustable for staff. You've got staff work area directly adjacent to the desk, with a window, and then you've got self service functions on the front hand right hand side of the image there and then there's a children's room beyond children's room will have a themed entry and some other decorative elements that are appropriate for kids. This is slide 12. Now we've come up this stair now we're inside the the main reading room the historic reading room. You can see it's going to it's going to remain as is it's going to be brightened up with with new paint. The stair lands in the middle of the space. It's hard to describe but there's a woman standing there in the image, and there's there'll be a library display at the top of the stair and then you see the sort of colored stained glass window. Currently, that's that wasn't that wasn't existing when an original window in the building in 1914 and then the 1990s, when it was the building was renovated that window got blocked off so we have decided to. We're not able to unblock the window but we're going to create a light box behind it, and there's, we've commissioned public art as a piece of stained glass for that and Kathy'll talk about that a little later. Sort of in the center of the image you see the desk, this sort of a curve shape that will be the staff desk, and then the furnishings to the right of the pagers of technology corral with a scan station print station, and laptop kiosks, and then you can. Next slide please. This is slide 13. You can see that the furnishings the shelving will be lower the shelving is actually on mobile dolly so if if need be, it could be moved rearrange changed the furniture will be will have a lighter appearance. It will literally be white like this that it that's the the images here are kind of placeholder images so we left them as a sort of a generic white color, rather than defining, you know, exactly what the furniture is going to look like but it gives you a sense of the scale and serve the design sensibility of that furniture. Next slide please. Now this now we're inside the teen room which is on the western side of the building this is inside that that expansion is up on the on the second floor the main floor, and they has large windows facing west. And it's going to be a tall lovely space that the right hand part of this room that you see in this picture is the historic terracotta tile and medallions with the authors names that will be that decorative terracotta will be an interior feature of that teen room. Next slide. This is slide 15. This is another view of the teen room, and you can see the terracotta, and then you can see in the middle of the image you see a portal, and that portal is a large, you know, opening in the historic wall that will take you back into the main reading room to the right or big windows facing west. Next slide please. So these will be some exterior views of the building. This is a slide number 16. And this is at the corner of Bartlett Street and 24th Street. So where the the current entrance to the building is now be that courtyard entrance and you can see in this image just above the words Bartlett Street a fence and that's going to be a new fence Plaza that offers a little, a little security with to that connection when you talk. So the idea here is that you have an outdoor program space so we'll be able to come and do story time we can do outdoor story time, and we'll have a fence fence, a little fence courtyard directly adjacent to that room. The street trees are the existing trees they'll remain the sidewalk will be newly paved. Next slide please. This is slide 17. The sidewalk will be newly paved and we get planters along the face of the building that you can see there. On the left hand side next to the guy with the bicycle you can see the new front door which is, which is going to be patterned after the historic front door. And then, where it says Orange Alley, you can see our building addition. Next to the building we have a little datum that separates the, the two structures, we have a, we're actually literally touching the building very lightly the existing historic building. The addition is, is going to be done, it's done in complementary materials, and with very sympathetic scale and proportion. Then you can see the space frame church on the alley, next to the building. Next slide please. This is slide 18. This is another view showing the building addition is going to have metal wall panels decorative metal wall panels and an architectural concrete down below. You can see the main entry on the center of the building so that will be, again, that will be the new restored main entry to the building. Next slide please. And this slide 19 is another view from essentially up from Valencia Street looking down the street where you can see the addition and its placement next to the building. Next slide. Okay, so this is slide 20. And when we get when we get to the Q&A, I assume that we'll be able to go back and look at any images that people want to have a closer look at. But slide 20 is a project schedule, and it says building permit complete September 2021, which was the case but we're not quite there we have. We've got one more, one more issue to resolve before we will have a building permit and that's related to the Department of Public Health, but we're very close to that. We are planning on advertising for bid this month we're working hard to make that happen. The bid period will be approximately 130 days and we would expect to start construction in the early part of the summer of 2022, if all goes according to plan. Next slide. This is slide 21. The budget, where the original budget was 19.8 million. We now have a projected budget of 24.7 million it has gone up. The budget is reflective of current market conditions, COVID escalations. The project scope remains the same, which is good. Next slide. One of the next steps for the architects and construction ours to secure the building permit, which we will do this month, most likely and then advertise for bid this month. Next slide. Okay, so this is slide 23 I'm a hand this back to Kathy. Thank you. Thanks so much, Andy. So, I'm really love hearing Andy talk about the building and seeing the designs and we'll have an opportunity for folks to ask questions about those in just a few minutes the next two things on the agenda are that first I'll talk to and share what we're doing currently at the mission branch talk about temporary services, and then share a quick update on public art and then we'll go to the, the question and answer portion of our meeting. So for those of you who joined us late you may not have seen the agenda in the second slide I believe. So what we are doing right now at the mission branch is that our dedicated team of staff, our librarians or circulation staff are providing SFPL to go service at the mission branch five days a week. This is being offered Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 530pm. And because we know how important browsing the collection is to the community, we're supplementing SFPL to go service with bookmobile service for afternoons each week. Visitors to the bookmobile can select items in Spanish and English from the mission branch collection, and they can get help from staff and placing holds. The bookmobile is at the primary entrance of the branch at 300 Bartlett Street. It's there Tuesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays. It is there in the afternoon starting at 12pm until 530pm. In addition to the bookmobile, we've got some book trucks usually that are out front as well where there are even more materials for people to browse. So please, we're on slide 24 right now. So the library is working closely with the city's department of real estate to secure a storefront space in the mission that will house a full service temporary branch for the duration of the mission branches renovation. We had thought we would be in a position last month to share with you where exactly that would be, but we had an unfortunate setback right before the in-person meetings that we hosted in December. We had hoped that we had a, we thought that we had a space and we were about to sign the lease, but at the last minute that fell through. So, as we have dawned, we have continued working with our department of real estate colleagues, and we're actually in dialogue with the property owner in the mission right now about a space that we're even more excited about than the first space. It's a really great spot and we hope to have more information for you when we have that lease signed. So we do plan to begin in early 2022 and to have that in place for the full duration of the mission branch closure. Those services will begin and the SFPL to go and bookmobile service at 300 Bartlett Street will will cease. I want to just reiterate that it's in the mission neighborhood and that the goal here is that we will be open to the community seven days per week, including some evening hours. Those are our commitments to you and we just wanted to be sure that everyone has gotten that message that we do plan to have a full service branch seven days per week, including evening hours in the mission neighborhood for the entire duration of the project. Next slide please. When that site is up and running what you'll find at the temporary site will be materials that you can browse and check out in Spanish and in English. We're going to be focusing on our pop, most popular materials, because the temporary site will be much smaller than the, the actual mission branches. But we'll have fresh and current materials, all of the new books, all of the lucky day books, the things that people are, are asking for and are kind of the hottest titles, similar to what we're doing on the bookmobile. We'll have holds pick up service continue. We'll be able to provide public computing, so people can come in and get connected with the internet using the library computers. We will have the same coffee facts and scan services that all of our branches libraries have. And most importantly, we will have the mission branch staff at this site and they will be there to serve you and to help you to find anything you need in English and in Spanish. I also want to assure you that the temporary site will be ADA accessible. Next slide please. The final portion of our presentation is just to share out about the amazing opportunity we've had to expand the public art at our mission branch library. So, following Andy's presentation, we have public art already in the mission branch, and that art is a triptych by Emmanuel Montoya. And that triptych has been divided up. When you had seen it last in the branch, you probably noticed it as you were entering the lobby area and walking toward the children's room. The three pieces of art were sort of disjointed and they weren't pulled together in the way that the artist had envisioned them and intended them. As Andy said earlier, that triptych will be brought together in the mission community room space and it will be able to be seen all the time, and it's going to be really prominently displayed and well lit and it's just going to be a much nicer presentation of that art. And finally, because of the size of this renovation project, it actually warrants new public art. And so we worked with our colleagues at the San Francisco Arts Commission, who have facilitated the process to select the artist who will create the new public art. And they've been working on this process for the course of more than a year now. This included the convening of panelists from within the mission community. And I want to read the names of those art review panelists because they have done great work in and coming together and reviewing the submissions. And I'm hopeful that you'll hear people's names that you recognize as members of your community. The first person is Ramon Hernandez, who is our adult services branch manager at the Mission Branch Library. I'm this artistic director and co director of Southern exposure. Maybell Jimenez, artist and community representative. Angelica Rodriguez, the gallery coordinator of the Mission Cultural Center. Abby Schner Arts Commissioner. Susan Pontius Civic Art Collection and Public Art Program Director San Francisco Arts Commission, and Andy Stone. Hey folks. Andy Sones, our building project architect, had a counseling type of a voice they were not voters in the final decision but provided guidance and information about about the building. The process, the Arts Commission led also included an opportunity for the public to provide feedback to the artist review panel on the proposals that were submitted by the three shortlisted artists. Elisia Posway Rojas and Javier Robado. The community response. We had been a little bit concerned that because the branch was closed, we wouldn't be able to put the poster boards up and have a little feedback box like we have done it with our other art, our other public art for libraries. The Arts Commission came up with a really creative solution, which was to post the submission, post the three finalists, the three shortlisted artists on the, the metal doors of the branch, so that people who were walking by could actually engage with the art. We did a lot of email communications and publicize this through the library's website, and we actually thought more than 300 responses from the community, which was just fabulous because at a time when we weren't all able to get together and look at these submissions. The person necessarily we had a lot of people who were engaging through using the Internet to vote. And it was just a really super process, and ultimately the panel decided that one Alicia was the finalist. Next slide please. We're on slide 27. This slide you can actually see all three of the shortlisted artists. y lo más prominente es el Nopal de la Nación, por Juana Alicia. Y puedes ver el trabajo hermoso que todos los tres artistas hicieron, y estamos muy contentos con el resultado. Y quiero compartir con usted Juana Alicia sus palabras sobre su propia obra de arte, y su intención, que es que va a llevar la vida vibrante de la mundo natural para el ambiente de la librería, ofreciendo las bloques en blusca blusquinas con cientos oscuros con centros de las primeras inclinaciones intelectuales para el espacio de la broma de la reina. Las formas organicas compliquen lo de la arquitectura de lujanas, y se les da un respeto visual desde el ambiente de la década de la bienes del organismo. Los artistas las escuchan, y lo que se escuchabanstanden, podemos incorporar un poco de el mundo natural en este libro público en el corazón de la misión, que realmente es un ambiente muy urbano. ¿Cómo podemos llevar alguna hermosa y alguna cultura y touchstones de la comunidad? Y así, esta arte, espero que te guste mucho como lo hago. Es tan vibrante, dinámica y hermoso, y creo que habla a la ciudad. Y con la comunidad y con la comunidad que se ha escuchado tan bien. La imagen va a ser creada en el glas, y va a ser la batalla, para que la luz sienta por el glas en el espacio. Los artistas van a crear la imagen, y luego la Comisión de Artes va a ayudar a actualizar, a poner esa imagen en esta batalla de glas, una hermosa pieza. Y cuando la misión se abre, todos serán capaces de subir las estrellas y ver esta hermosa arte, nos invitamos, cuando llegamos a la estrellas, a la red en el segundo plazo. El siguiente plazo, please. Así que esa es la conclusión de la parte de la presentación de nuestro mes de la reunión renovación. Y ahora tenemos una oportunidad de escuchar de ti y de responder preguntas que podrías tener para el libro o para el público. Y así, voy a... voy a facilitar esa conversación con la ayuda de mis colegas, Anisa y Lisa, detrás de la escena. So, attendees, puedes poner tus manos si tienes una pregunta. Y también puedes poner preguntas en el box de Q&A. Si alguien está llamando, ¿es una forma de que ellos puedan también poner sus manos? Es una buena pregunta. Bueno, podemos llamar a las personas de los que están llamando y podemos ver si podemos inmediatamente llamar a las calles para preguntar si tienen preguntas. Y, Kathy, esta es Kate. Si veas el box de Q&A, hay un par de preguntas que han venido. Así que puedes referir a esas. Ok. Yo quiero explicar la primera pregunta que hay sobre las imágenes históricas que están ahora en vista en la escena y en la escena principal. Y Mr. Weber estaba preguntando qué planos fueron para esos en el nuevo construcción. Ok. Bueno, ¿por qué no... Voy a leer... Quizás lo que podamos hacer, Kate. ¿Quieres leer la pregunta de Mr. Weber? O voy a leer la pregunta y tú read la respuesta que le dices. Bueno, mi respuesta fue, básicamente, que son seguros en el construcción de la escena. Y ellos están still hanging y que ellos estarán bien removados antes de construcción y donde estarán asociados en el nuevo construcción es como si todavía se haya determinado. Y él ha seguido y estaba preguntando si pudiera hacer un copy de algunas de esas imágenes. Si no hay plan para despegar los nuevos libros. Bien. Y luego hay una pregunta una attendiente anónima ha preguntado, la escena de la escena principal en el primero parece haber en el norte de la zona que tiene los pasajeros en el interior de la comunidad. Así que, si caminaste a la puerta de la frontera y caminaste hacia el interior de la comunidad, hay pasajeros en el interior. Y se preguntaron cómo el interior de la comunidad sería accesible. Y Andy Sohn respondió que el elevador sirve a ese nivel. Así que, el elevador va a subir a el segundo nivel y va a bajar esos pasajeros a nivel de la comunidad. Y yo voy a interlocar que hemos confirmado que para alguien que está llamando a un celular, puede usar star 9 para que la mano sea elevada o bajar la mano. Gracias. Hay un comentario que voy a leer de un atendido anónimo. Un gran trabajo. Parece que es hermoso. Y Kate Patterson dice que gracias. Y yo digo que gracias. Y estoy segura de que nuestros colegas públicos están felices de escuchar que te gusta. Hay una pregunta. Will the outdoor courtyard plaza space be open to the public to read books outdoors when an event is not going on and our city librarian Michael Lambert has responded in the chat thread and said yes, the outdoor space on the Bartlett side of the building will be accessible for patrons to enjoy during open hours. So let's move over to the to I see Craig Weber has has their hand raised. Oh. I'm allowing Craig to unmute and talk. Yes, can you hear me? We can. Yeah, hi, I just wanted to follow up on that question. I don't think Catherine really responded Kate to your to the question I posted on the Q&A. I wanted to know what is the disposition of those historic photographs that were in the main reading room of the library. Sure. What are your plans? Are they going to be placed in storage for the next hundred years? Because they do contain family members of mine and I would like to know what's going to happen. So I think that those my understanding is that those images and it's wonderful to know that your family is in them. Those are part of shades of the mission program that was done many years ago, I believe, and so the images are kind of they're blown up on foam core and so our plan for for now would be to remove them from the branch during the construction so that they don't get damaged, but the library, all of the images that are in the branch, are images that are in our historic photo collection and we haven't talked very much about what we'll be doing with images of that, you know, will we be incorporating those images back into the space afterward, but it's good to hear from you that you're interested. It sounds like you're interested in having images back in the space again. I don't think I don't think you're you're really representing the heart of the mission in kind of the historical roots of the mission in the proposed plans and the artwork. OK, so are you suggesting that I want to be sure that we understand your your feedback and hear it. So. Let me let me let me let me present the question in a different way. What what are you presenting in the new library? En terms of the architecture, in terms of the artwork that is representative of the historical roots of the mission. Andy, do you have? Well, this is Andy, sewn from Public Works. We we haven't, you know, I love those photos. I would love to find a way to incorporate them into the the building. And it's certainly something. It's it's not something that's been ruled out. And to be honest, we haven't we haven't considered a display of those, but we probably should talk about that and and and find a way to to honor those pictures in some way. And probably, you know, newer, restored versions of them. I think a lot of them are faded. But, you know, I think it's it's it's not an intentional oversight, I assure you, because those are very well liked photographs. No, it doesn't necessarily have to be those photographs. I mean, I'm partial to them because, you know, my aunt is the Latina woman standing in front of that old car on Treet Street. But I'm just curious about, you know, what are you mean? Have you given any thought in terms of of the historical representation of the mission? y regresar al turno de la década, cuando los germans y los iraníos y los italianos construyeron la misión, literalmente, en términos de la arquitectura victoriana, que todavía existen, incluso después de la acercación de la acercación de 1906. No sé lo que puedes hacer, estoy presentando una pregunta para usted, pero lo tengo que pensar, si es decoración o si es añadiendo algunas features de la arquitectura, no sé, eso es tu trabajo. Arquitecturalmente, estamos intentando honorar el edificio original por restaurar ciertos elementos y hacer algunos de esos daños que se han hecho en los 90's. Culturamente, creo que esa es una buena pregunta para el libro, porque no tenemos mucho desplazamiento físico que está construido en la arquitectura. Yo creo que esto es algo que fue una consideración con la selección de la artes publicas, como también la misión de los nopal de la misión, el cactus nopal, la significación de la comunidad, que estamos manteniendo la artes montañas también. Esa es una buena feedback, y escuchar que esto es importante para usted es valioso, así que muchas gracias, Prick. Gracias. Tenemos otro invitador, un invitador. ¿Pueden hablar con él? Un invitador. Puede hablar. ¿Puedes escuchar a mí? Sí, podemos. Hola, esto es Peter Warfield de la Asunción de Líbaros de Usos. He tenido un par de preguntas, y creo que debería leerlo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Con respecto a la historia, ¿ha habido la Preservación Histórica, comisión, revisado y aprobada los planos que existen, incluyendo lo que creo que es infuente, que las estrellas no son directas a la centralidad de las librerías. Con respecto a la Servicio Interim, ¿qué es el tamaño? No sé si es pequeño o presumamente. ¿Qué es el tamaño comparado con el lugar existente? ¿Y cuáles son las horas y días para ser open? Hemos escuchado 7 días, y eso es bueno. Hemos escuchado las noches, que es bueno, pero ¿están las noches hasta las 9 de la noche como pre-COVID o alguna otra cantidad? Y luego, en términos de participación, cuando me llamé, decían que el número de teléfono fue escuchado solo, decía que me muería por todo el tiempo, me aprecio que es una manera de verlo, pero la información que me quedó cuando la llamé fue que me muere por todo el tiempo. Y luego estoy curioso de cómo las folks fueron seleccionados para ser notificados para este mes. Decided que recibo la lista el último tiempo en una de las reuniones en la humanidad y pensé que significa que me convertiría Future meetings concerning mission and I didn't get anything. I'm also concerned that the phone number hasn't been listed in a public way so that people don't have to use a computer to get the phone number. A lot of people who are poorer, who are minorities, who are older, who are not proficient in English are greatly disadvantaged by having to go through a computer to get access to this. And then did you send invitations to folks by email or by phone who might not have access to basically how were the invitations decided as to who was going to be contact. And that's my list of live questions, more or less. Peter, it may be difficult to answer all five of them in quick succession without any repeat of them, but the first question has the historic preservation commission approved this plan yes they did this this design was brought before the historic preservation and civic design review. And it, and we had a lot of engagement in those meetings. And, and believe that we kind of, we were the number of meetings with them. That took place, not this past summer but the prior summer. I think Kate Patterson may be able to answer your questions about the, about the publicity for the, for the meeting that we're at right now. Yeah, so every person who has a library card in an email received notice about this meeting. We also prioritize the service area and sent multiple reminders to specifically mission patrons in both English Spanish. It was in the it's on the homepage of our website. It is on our calendar. It was in the news that went out this week. Mr Warfield, if you do get emails from us, then you've, you've received this notification multiple times so we really tried to cast a wide net net and get the word out about this meeting. I don't actually get emails as a patron. Well, it was also in the monthly atl print edition atl at the library. And I believe another question that you had raised. Mr Warfield was the size. And I think you're referring to kind of the square footage of the building now versus when it with the expansion on the orange alley side and I think that's a good question for Andy sonar architect. The question is, is this the size Kathy. The size of the new slightly expanded branch versus the existing branch. Oh, I, you know, I don't have I that's the thing I should always have with me and I don't I don't have it but I have the just a sense of how many feet that yeah I think we're somewhere around, you know, 3000 additional feet in this building. Perhaps, yes. But yeah it's grown a little bit. It's a great question I guess Kathy asked it I was actually asking about the square footage expected for the interim location. I'm sorry, paired with the no don't be sorry it was a very good question I'm actually interested in knowing the book count that you expect in the old and in the new version as well that's usually a count. We're not quite at that point yet because we haven't. We've been really working on the, the, I say we like I've been drawing I'm not the architect, our colleagues at Public Works have been working on the design of the building. The furniture plan is something that we can do a little bit later, it's not something that is completely dialed in. We're retaining all of the perimeter shelves. The addition will have space for books as well on the second floor and on the first floor. And then the exact furnishing hasn't been selected which includes all of the shelving in the middle of the floor so it's difficult to give you a comparison for those elements at this time because it's still in progress. Peter you had another, you had questions that I didn't manage to write down as you were speaking so I know that we haven't missed something would you like to restate the ones we haven't answered. I was interested in the space that you're looking for or expecting to have in the interim location. And the hours, specifically, the number of hours weekly or and or evenings. A lot of the new branches if not all of them have had an hour chopped from what they were precovid. So once that were open till nine or eight, and I heard you say and I'm glad to hear evening hours but I'm interested in what specifically how late. For for the space answer. When we've been looking for spaces we've been looking for spaces that have at least I believe 2000 square feet. I don't know the exact square footage of the site that we're looking at right now that we're in conversation with real estate about. It is. It is an ample and ample space for collect for the type of service that I described with holds pick up some seating for people materials for children teens adults, and then the public computing as well. Just comparing it with the current, the current branch, just a comparison, I know it's not the same. The current branch. Andy, the square footage. I mean, it's, it's not as large Peter, but the largest branch in our, in our mission branches not the largest branch but I think it's around 14,000 square feet. And it's current form Chinatown is around 18 to 19,000 feet. That's, I think that's your biggest branch. Okay. But 2000 square feet for the temporary space is, is what we were looking for the space that we have been talking about. It's actually a good layout and it should actually incorporate more than materials than the earlier space we had been considering, which we were happy about. And then the hours. We do have a plan to have evening hours. And I know you would like to know the exact hours, I think until we have the exact space it's going to be difficult to say the exact hours. I would expect we would be open until on some of the weeknights until seven or eight o'clock. Initially, and we could see if we can restore that eight to nine hour later in the year. Well, not all the answers what I would like, but thank you for being conscientious about it. And I do think that there are a lot of people who are in the category of vulnerable populations, quote unquote, with respect to how they would find out. And so a lot of, you know, the notification, it seems library should make an effort to notify folks who do not have, who are not on email for one reason or another. I forgot to mention something we also had flyers that we distributed in English and Spanish at the branch itself. So, that was another mode of getting the word out, I just want to take a moment Kathy, because I am just cognizant of the folks who may be receiving interpretation right now that we've had a number of questions that have come through the chat, some of the questions that have been answered so I thought for those who are not dialed into the Q&A chat function that we might sort of revisit a few of those big questions so that everyone has the benefit of getting the information. One of them was related to the outdoor courtyard plaza space and whether it would be open for the public to read books outdoors. And our city librarian chimed in and noted that yes, the outdoor space on the Bartlett side of the building will be accessible for patrons to enjoy during open hours. So, I had another question about, sorry, about the number of books and the, so the question was, I hope books will feature prominently in the new upstairs and that robust is robust. The community room is open to the rest of the building, yes. Does that mean nothing noisy like Bernal jazz or the downstairs activities will echo round upstairs and the city librarian Michael Lambert said thanks for your feedback yes physical collections will be showcased prominently. I think it's great to provide a great experience for our patrons to find the materials they are seeking and enjoy browsing the book displays. I think this might be a good opportunity to to mention Andy or Kathy that you, we will be expanding our footprint with the addition on the outside of the building with the team room so I know that there's been some comments related to the bookshelves and the lower I think it's probably worth addressing, you know the different types of bookshelves will have in there, and how, and why those choices were made, and then also sort of mentioned in that there's going to be an expansion where we can put more books. And there's a few more so why don't you answer that and then I can go back into this Q&A. So, one of the things that I had mentioned in the beginning of our presentation was our guiding principle and that works where one of the guiding principles is this transparency and being able to see across the spaces. And so there had been a tendency in libraries in the past, and actually our mission, a beautiful mission branch suffered because of this, with the most recent renovation with very, very tall books, many of which could not be reached easily by our patrons. And that's the books that are actually what we find in libraries is the books that are visible, the books that you can see that are at eye height, those are the books that people really check out and circulate. And so what we're looking for in this space that we were really aiming for was that sense of openness and that sense of airiness of the original mission branch which did not was not chock full of books all around in the interior spaces that the perimeter shelves around the exterior walls, were bookshelves, but we know that we love our books in San Francisco and we love our Spanish books and our English books and so we have incorporated shelves that are of a height that can still be seen over by adult patrons. And we're still determining exactly which shelves will be, the shelving units have not been selected yet, but also to be mobile, they need to be a certain, they need to be under a certain height so that we can move them around and keep our flexibility of our floor plan. Those, the flexibility that we were looking for and that we heard from the community that you were looking for, and also that transparency of the space and kind of the grandeur of the space. Those are some of the things that we were bearing in mind when making the decision that we were going to go with the mobile furnishings the mobile bookshelves, and the lower height bookshelves. But we are committed to having really lots and lots and lots of books and other materials in our libraries. We have great resources in our community, and we have a really excellent and robust book budget and we definitely plan to make books a focal point of our library. All of our libraries. Matthew, I just want to call attention to another open question in the chat, it appears, Zach is waiting to be able to ask their question, or make a comment so I don't know if Zach is waiting on the phone do we have any other callers waiting. We do Zach is being able to speak now. Yes, hi. Thank you for finally getting to the public questions and comments. This process has been infuriating. It's been extremely hard to feel like as a member of the public and someone who lives in this neighborhood that I have any access to this process. The fact that questions and comments were waited to like something like an hour after this meeting started we had to sit through this presentation yet again is just another slap in the face of the public. The accessibility for disabled folks and for virtual attendance to your previous meetings for phone attendance was completely deprioritized. There wasn't even accessibility information on the website or in the email sent out until I made a formal complaint with the mayor's office on disability. That does not show the respect to this community that we deserve. And it really feels like this project has been proposed and pushed through and I do emphasize the word pushed without proper community outreach and community input. These meetings are a sham. They require us to sit through your presentation of almost an hour to and if we even can find out these meetings exist and requiring 72 hours to have a disability accommodation when I don't even think the notification was given a week ago. It's really deplorable to see this kind of interaction with the public you say you hand out flyers how many flyers did you hand out where did you hand them out. You get really reasonable questions about what are the hours going to be at this branch during construction afterwards you can't even answer that like it's really disgusting and really disheartening to see these kind of projects. And that's a side from the fact you know have have you involved Cali 24 in this have you involved the Mission Neighborhood Cultural Center like have you involved Prasita eyes like this project is clearly a component of the city getting more kickbacks from contractors and construction jobs which you've always prioritized during COVID rather than public safety like people can't even get masks right now. And it's extremely hard for people to get access to safe distancing and PPE to access libraries and technology. And rather than prioritizing that and putting money towards people safety. It's being put towards a big huge construction project for months if not years of this crap going to be drilling and and banging in the neighborhood when people are sheltering in place and already stressed out and don't need more noise pollution and more regular pollution from what this project is going to cause. It's super upsetting to see this being pushed through during a pandemic when this money should really be going to better things to increased hours and increased access getting laptops to people getting ways that the digital divide is not keeping the city in a caste system where the haves and the have nots are deeply separated with access to our libraries programs and services. Moreover, this project is clearly only a result of the city caring about this neighborhood now that it's being gentrified with the tech money that's coming into it and the whitening of this neighborhood. The city did not care about this neighborhood and these kind of things until this started to happen. And now this is just another project to push that agenda. Let us not forget that the library spent something like $14,000 a few years ago to erase the multicultural history that was painted on the outside of the Bernal Heights Library branch with the Victor Harra mural. The library decided we don't want people of color on that library. We don't want to remember the multicultural and political history that took place there. They decided to paint it over to spend thousands of dollars to paint it over. I want to remind you all and everyone here that the Department of Public Works is ridiculously corrupt. The head of the public works, Mohammed Nourou, was arrested by the FBI on charges of corruption in 2020. According to CBS News, he took, quote, continuous bribes from the contractors, developers and entities he regulated. He now faces a prison sentence for enriching himself at the expense of the public as he sat in high office. This is the former director of the department that's presenting here today. Sound a little bit familiar, getting kickbacks from contractors, creating more public projects that people aren't even aware of, doing insufficient outreach to people, not including community centers, not providing clear statistics and information about something as simple as library hours. Misuse of funds to push these projects through so you can get those kickbacks. That's what's going on here and I really hate to see it. And I don't believe the public is being included in this process. I feel we are being excluded. We are being forced to wait till the very end here to even have our input. And of course, you're just going to ignore it and just try to try to brush it off, make this sound like a nice little PR move. It's disgusting. It's deplorable. I hate to see this happening in my community and I will continue to speak out against it. Thank you for your feedback. Anisa, do we have any other colors? If not, I'll continue reading the other questions that came through so that everyone can hear the questions and answers. We are good. I think we should switch to some of the questions folks are throwing in the chat. Great. I just want to cover the ones again, because there are folks on this call who are getting interpretation and they may not be seeing these questions and answers. So the one question was, will the temporary library be located near the current location? And Michael Lambert responded, yes. The temporary location will remain in the mission district. The exact location. We're still working on it. So we've, we've, we've mentioned that a number of times. Someone asked, I'm curious about the new study room. And what has that area been used for until now? Will it be a quiet area with the door and Andy Stone responded, the study room is in the location of the current stair that leads from the lobby. Andy, is there anything else you want to say about that study room? Okay. So the study room on the upper floor that's on the southeast corner, that's in the location of the existing stair where you come up, where there's a historic photos, as you come up the stair that'll be on the main floor there. And it will, it will not be an enclosed room. It will have an open, it'll have an opening and a door opening, but not a door. And in that room will be one panel from the original stair that still sort of la, the last remnant of that stair. So we're using that as a decorative portion inside that room. In terms of that, there was a question about the community room on the ground floor, whether it or not it's got acoustic separation from the rest of the building. And it does. I think the picture that we showed it, there's a glass wall there and because it's glass, it doesn't really come through on the, on the image that we showed, but yeah, it's got glass doors and a big glass window. So the community room is acoustically separated from the rest of the building. Thank you. So we have, someone's hand is up. I'm going to. Yes. Is it Minaj? Minaj has put his hand down. Okay. The one person that has their hand up has already spoken. Maybe go on to the. Yeah. For now. Perfect. I want to make sure that folks who haven't had a chance to be heard or heard. So the next question was about the marble on the staircase. And. And whether or not we would be able to incorporate it in the new design. And Andy responded that we looked long and hard at city storage facilities for salvaged materials from the 1990s, but found nothing. There's one terracotta panel that is in the current lobby. This will be featured in the new study room on the main floor. So is there anything else you want to add, Andy, about repurposing of old materials? Well, you know, it's disheartening to find that we weren't able to turn up the original doors, for instance, the front entry doors and some of that other stair material. That we, we would have thought would have been salvaged and the primary storage place is called the main floor. The main floor. The main floor. An we spent a lot of time digging through that, you know, every, every inch of that, that space and couldn't find anything. Unfortunately, realmente, queremos que podamos tener tantos artefacios como pudimos, pero no podremos hacer nada. Ok, gracias. Entonces la siguiente pregunta es, ¿cómo es el financiamiento remodelado? Y el budget, como se llama, es $24 millones y Michael Lambert respondió, la renovación es financiada por el budget de las libreras, el fundo de preservación de la librería permite a la librería financiar a muchos de nuestros proyectos capitales, incluyendo esta renovación mayor. Así que eso nos lleva a la velocidad de las preguntas. Creo que he visto una otra. Alguien preguntó sobre los nombres de autorías en el barro y en el tío. Gracias. Están los que están ahora en el barro de la construcción, y eso será desplazado como el arte de las libreras. Y, sí, el barro tiene un clásico de autorías, desplazados cerca de las calles y por lo que están bien exames de laappa, que están en la construcción. Entonces, si hay una minería, está bien. Es bien para ser. Incluso los que no están en el barro se van a ver por ahora donde están las citas. Entonces elgano está muy bien, pero lo que parece a la firma que está en el barro en el barro es que se encargará de la tonalidad de la caída de las libreras. La forma en la que ese espacio está en ambos lados, la Comisión de Preservación Histórica, fue realmente involucrada en compartir sus ideas y feedback sobre cómo el nuevo espacio trabajó con uno otro. Estamos muy contentos de cómo el diseño ha aparecido. Creo que será una cosa muy buena para los teens que están en el espacio que used to be outside y es una cosa muy buena para pensar. Gracias. Tenemos un par de preguntas abiertas, pero sé que un par de manos están abiertas. ¿Por qué no escuchamos a los primeros? Y luego vamos a volver a un par de preguntas abiertas que tenemos en el chat. ¿Por qué no? Creo que la persona de teléfono puede ser de ellos. Quiero asegurar que el señor Warfield está en el espacio. Todos estos manifestantes han pasado la pregunta. No hay preguntas, pero hay una pregunta abierta de Maggio. No tenemos preguntas. O sea, vamos a intentar welfare. Porque el debate de la persona de teléfono tiene en cuenta de la serie de los estados. Si tienen de los estados, de ser un presentador en este formato particular. He attendido muchas meetings durante la pandemia, pero he nunca estado en este formato. Y he aprendido que hay un abierto y una sección de respuesta. He estado mirando a la sección de respuesta. Y, Mr. Webber, estoy muy sorprendente. No creo que me entendía cómo las relaciones estaban entre las preguntas. Así que no he intencionado no responder a una parte de los años antes. Esto es solo mi momento de aprendizaje. Así que muchas gracias a los pacientes. No te preocupes, pero solo porque estamos llevando tiempo. Mr. Webber tenía un par de preguntas sobre, que estoy justificando, sobre la flexibilidad del espacio. Cómo la construcción, la renovación, permitirá para otros usos del espacio para, digamos, música y danza o performancia. Y así que tal vez puedes hablar de alguna de las pensaciones behind making it a more flexible space. Sure, something that we have. Oh, no, there's an alarm going off in my house and I hope you can't hear it. Something that that we do right now in the mission branch is that we move the furniture around and we host events in the adult area or we move the things around in the children's room and we host our story time there. So we're really used to having our programming in among the materials and among the spaces. We incorporated this meeting room so that we had the ability to really have programs that were in a program room and where it was a little bit more focused and it was less disruptive to other other people who were using the space. But that said, at the library, we kind of like to go big. So when we're doing a library open house, we might envision like doing one type of program upstairs for one age group and another program in the community space for for a different age group. And we really just like the flexibility that we can have groupings of chairs and furnishings that are different, that if we find that the layout that we would prefer to to have a table in a location where right now there's a book a bookshelf, that we can swap those things without having to do a major renovation. One of the things that we found with some of our branch library improvement program branches is that while there was theoretically the ability to move things around, in a lot of cases, the furniture plan that was in place on opening day was really the way you had to keep it and this more flexible furniture plan. We're hoping that it makes it more adaptable in the future, that if library, if, if in the future, nobody's using desktop computers, they're all using laptops or tablets or some special paper of the future that hasn't been invented that that you can compute with and connect with the internet with that we can use those spaces that they're not locked in as these are computer spaces or these are reader chairs. We the space is designed in a way that we can evolve it kind of throughout the day as as different activities are being hosted or different groups are using the space. And then we can also evolve that over time, over a period of years, without requiring a major renovation. I hope I answered. I think that there are kind of two questions that I. But I hope that that addressed. Thanks, Kathy. I just wanted to Zach had a question about how many fliers passed out. The branch staff actually was responsible for passing out the fliers. So we don't have that exact exact answer, but they were distributed through the SFPL to go service as well as the bookmobile. I, you know, they they had a large quantity. I'm not sure how many actually if they kept track of how many actually went into hands and then he had another question about community engagement for this project. Cidincae Bente Cuadro, Proceda Eyes and the Mission Neighborhood Cultural Center. And I don't know, perhaps you can address, you know, at the very early stages of this project, what kind of maybe recaps some of the community engagement that was done. As sure. Well, one of the groups during the portion of the presentation where we talked about the Mission Library Public Art, I did read the read the name of Angelica Rodriguez, the gallery coordinator of Mission Cultural Center. So as far as the selection of the art, the new public art Mission Cultural Center was definitely included and had a representative on the art panel, the art selection panel. With regards to community organizations, one thing that our mission branch staff do really well is engage their community. And we actually one of our branch managers is in attendance right now and may wish to speak to that. Laura, please raise your hand if you would like to. But I know that what they've been doing throughout this multi year process is that they've been reaching out to community organizations. They've been talking up what's going on and what we're looking to do and how we want to get the community to come to the various meetings that we've hosted. We've had really good attendance back at the meetings that we hosted at the very beginning when we just had open format meetings and said, hey, we're thinking of renovating this branch. And what is it that what is it that you would like? And so the community groups mentioned I am I am confident that they were aware that we are doing this renovation. And many of them helped us to get the word out. So I do think that we've had a lot of opportunities for engagement and we've been really impressed all along the way at how many people we've heard from 300 people commenting on public art for the Mission Branch Library. It's actually more than most other art projects. Get comments on so our community is really excited and really eager to be here for this and at the community meetings we hosted in person. We saw some of the same folks who have the ones we just hosted in December. We saw people who we've actually seen over the years, multiple times as they continue to engage, which is really wonderful to and I credit the branch staff with making that making that happen. We have only about a minute or two left in our time. So wait, wait, Kathy, I just because our interpreters are, you know, they're scheduled to conclude at 8 30. And I just want to be mindful of that. I would suggest that if there are additional questions we didn't get to, I know then we you can email them to the chief of branches email and we will provide a response and we'll capture that response in the minutes that we are taking for this meeting so that everyone has the benefit of your question and our answer. Sound good. Let me also just remind everybody, I introduced someone at the very beginning of the meeting who is still here. Her name is Flo Batad, Florenda Batad. You can see her in the panelists list. Flo has been taking minutes the whole time and we are since this is the same content we've already presented at the two prior meetings, we're doing a consolidated minutes that will be available in English and in Spanish and those minutes are thanks to Flo and Michael Roman, who work in the chief of branches office and will, of course, incorporate additional additional questions into that. If if those are shared with us. So I think what we can do is to proactively email you all after this meeting to make sure that you have the address that you can reach my team at in the chief of branches office. And I just I'm going to put in the chat, but it's chief of branches at SFPL.org. Correct, Kathy? Yes, that is correct. So chief of branches at SFPL.org, I just put it in the chat. I think you can also reach us at just C O B, which is much shorter. Flo, that's correct, right? I think. And I'm you flow. Yeah, I think you can just do C O B at chief at SFPL.org. Thanks, Kate, for putting that in the chat. Yes, just C O B at SFPL.org. Great, thank you, Flo. And you know, we can send an email to everyone who joined us tonight and just with that, with that emails, a follow up, thank you for coming. You can email your questions to this email. OK, and with that, I want to thank you for coming. It was really wonderful to meet with you in this way. I'm glad that we did it. We had a very good turnout and I appreciate, Zach, that you suggested it to us and that you were able to join us for this meeting and in the last meeting, we appreciate everyone who came and shared feedback and ideas and and that you shared your questions with us, because I know the other community members will benefit from reading the minutes and and even if they weren't able to join us today. But I do want to thank you for taking the time for making space for this important project and for participating in this community endeavor. We're really excited about the renovation and I hope I'll have an email to you soon about our temporary space and where it will be and what the hours will be. Thank you so much. I appreciate you all coming.