 Okay, so welcome to the building facilities meeting for the Jones Library. The meeting is being recorded. So seeing a quorum, I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order at nine o'clock. I'm going to perform a sound check to ensure that everyone can be heard. And so I'm going to do a roll call. George Hicks. Far Amin. Here. Sharon Sherry. Here. And Alex Lefebvre. I'm here. So pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021, this meeting will be conducted via remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting can do so by clicking on the live link to the student meeting that can be found in the public meeting calendar of the town of Amherst website or by dialing in by the phone. Public is able to comment during the public comment segment of the posted agenda by raising their hand. This meeting is being recorded and will be posted to the town of Amherst YouTube channel. Okay, with that business out of the way. First item on the agenda is approval of the meeting minutes for March 15. Except none of you have them. So that'll have to be next time. Yeah. See I have them because I wrote them so I didn't even like, I didn't even occur to me. Never mind. Okay, so item number two or I guess three is public comment. We have one member of the public attending. If they would like to speak or provide a comment. Now would be the time to raise your hand. I'm not seeing a hand I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next agenda item which is the North Amherst library building project update. Yeah, so I'm excited to say that a contractor has been chosen and contract documents have been signed. We're expecting a June 22 start date there will be a ribbon cutting grand opening ground break groundbreaking that's the word groundbreaking ceremony to be announced, you know, Paul is taking care of that. The project is expected to take between 10 and 12 months now. And the library staff only need a week to close and to move everything. And so the only difference from before is we'll be doing our interim location for this next year in a space in the middle district, the middle district has agreed to donate the space to the town, which is super awesome. The middle district. I think so, regarding the, the, the library space, both the architect and Gilford boring have assured me that we will be getting a closet in the front entry space where the stairs going downstairs used to be, as well as a little stand up computer nook in that space, and a couple of desks for the, the staff. So, so we're happy and that's pretty much all I have to share right now. Thanks for that. Do you know what space it is Sharon. I don't know the num, like I don't know the address. No, and what was next door. Vintage clothing shop was next door. What's it called the closet, the closet. Okay. By the way, plug for the closet, she's amazing. Yeah, hashtag the closet. Yep, absolutely. So Sharon, since we have the, the closet and the stand up computer nook are we I know at one point we were possibly going to lose three or 400 books, if we weren't able to do like an end cap on a debt like is that did we, are we want are we able to maintain the collection or yeah I don't I don't know. Okay, yeah, with all with all of the changes and staffing that have been happening. And now that we know that this project is going to take up to a year that we're not in super hurry to figure it all out. Okay, George. Just a couple questions regarding the space is anybody is the town going to provide any shelving for the interim location or are we just going to bring over what we can or do we know anything about that part of it. You know as much as I know, I know nothing. I don't know you know we met with, we met with Guilford and to be determined. The original timeline we had talked about was moving out end of May, obviously that's not happening so do we have a new timeline for when we think we're packing up. Not yet. Okay. Well, I'm on vacation until the eighth so it won't be before that. So we have, we actually asked that they wait until July, but the contractor was eager to begin sooner than that so they'll be, you know starting on some of the site work to the north of the buildings that so won't affect the library. And so once George comes back from vacation will be able to finalize more of those details. Sharon so who manages the move. Is it the town is at the library or is it together. I, the town. Okay, oh, okay. We have a seat at the table but it's not our table. So when we have the library the Jones move the town will manage that as well. No that's different that's us. It would be the building committee which is a town committee but will. There's more. There's more a 5050% partnership in that table. Does that make sense. Yep, as opposed to this table is not ours at all. Yeah, thank you. We're building in a town project so we just happened to be housed in the building that's being renovated and expanded. Yeah, that's what that's one of the bigger big differences between the projects is the Joan project, Jones project actually has funding a lot of for moving and relocating whereas this project does not. Yeah. Any other earth Amherst comments questions. Any other comments on the Kestrel land trust proposal. So I just want to say, I'm not sure who of you were there I know George was knocked it out of the park. It was a really great meeting. Jane Bryden from the Kestrel has been incredible. And it's a go. It's a go. I think I have no more specifics. Jane did say to me that when they're going to come in and do the root pruning they're going to let me know so that I can let our staff know, hey it's okay that people are out back doing things to the plants. I'm expecting that will have that work will happen soon. So, I, that's all I got, but it's great news. Yay. I'm not sure if they're all tagged right I mean I know when I walked through the garden. I expected to see more tags, and so I haven't counted them. So the only reason I say I expected more is, I don't know if they're all tagged, maybe the ones that are going to be pruned are tagged. I'm not sure. I don't think we have a 10 minute meeting fastest meeting ever. I don't think I don't think we have anything else right because everything else is really under under under the town committee at this point. Yeah, I mean as you guys know we have to, we have to set the agenda for these meetings and post these meetings quite a bit in advance and I'd rather put things on the agenda to be able to talk about it. So, sometimes when we post the agenda we think we will have more details than we do. So that's why. I just want to like a new agenda item I just wanted to mention that the air conditioning is scheduled to be turned on on May 31, which is the day after Memorial Day. As some of you know, the change over process to turn on the air conditioning is always a bit stressful and a day long process and we never really know if we're going to be dealing with any kind of equipment breakdowns or anything like that so crossing fingers everything goes well but thankfully we have cooler weather this week than we did this past weekend. Thank you. I'm going to cross the fingers. May 31. I think I feel like at this point we're lucky if it's only a one day process. We did not anticipate having to do this but the project got pushed off so fingers crossed. Yeah, well it'll, it'll, it'll be nice when a town cooling station can actually be a town cooling station an effective town cooling station on hot days like we had. So, something to look forward to. Are you waving goodbye or. No, I just had a quick question. So is it is this the same process like for months in and the North Amherst library to is it like a big project to get the air conditioning running or no no those buildings are much smaller and much less complex. In the Johnson building. I can't really speak to because I don't recall what type of system they have for air conditioning but the North Amherst building right now has a central air unit, and it's just a simple matter of flipping a switch. You know we have the system checked out every spring before, before cooling season starts but it's a much much simpler process for both of those places. It's more like a house. Whereas this is just craziness like a factory. We've we've multiple units it's not just one. In multiple levels of and and unique to this building versus the branches is that we have one or the other. Like if you change over to air conditioning and you get a super cold week, you can't turn the heat back on. The whole process would have to be undone. So it's one or the other. You know ideally so one of my dreams for the, the expanded Jones is to have a system that goes back and forth automatically. I look at my husband's, you know, West food bank of Western mass building and I'm so jealous because that's exactly what it does on the hot day the cooling system is on a cold day the heating system is on. But I have found in my experience, one of the first things to cut during budget talks is that automatic heating to cooling system. Sorry, George. To be tabled for a different committee. Yes. Yes. Well, that was the world's fastest meeting but if no one has anyone else then I'm going to adjourn. Have a great day you guys. Thank you.