A vital component of the planning phase
is a series of public meetings known as “charettes,” through
which the public can give input into various library- programming
elements that could be included in the new library. These meetings
represent important opportunities for city residents to contribute
ideas and convey preferences so that, in the end, Pacifica gets the
library it needs and deserves. Library designers from Group 4
Architecture will conduct the charettes this month, and all the
partners in the project want and need your participation.
Here are the dates for the upcoming
charettes:
Thursday, March 15, 7pm at Ingrid B.
Lacy Middle School
Saturday, March 17, 10am at Cabrillo
School Multipurpose Room
These two charettes will be identical
so that as many residents as possible can attend one or the other
meeting. Please take this opportunity to participate in the ongoing
process to build a new library in Pacifica, identified as a critical
need for the quality of life in our city. The library provides
essential services for all residents of Pacifica: support for formal
education, lifelong-learning resources for job skills retraining,
online access to apply for unemployment benefits, job applications,
college applications and so much more that contributes to the healthy
life of a community.
The recently completed Library Needs
Assessment clearly showed that, due to facility constraints,
Pacifica’s current libraries are not providing the full range of
services that neighboring cities enjoy. Benchmarking with other
comparable libraries shows that, at best, the facilities can support
library services at only one-third the level a city of our size
needs. Pacifica’s libraries are well-regarded and well-used, and
the city’s residents need library services now more than ever. By
providing these services, a new public library will contribute not
only to the healthy life of our community but will also serve as an
anchor for business development and a source of civic pride.
We look forward to seeing you at the
upcoming charettes!
Submitted by Thom Ball
14 comments:
I want to re-due my two murals at any new facility.
I fully support this project. I hope most participate in attending the charettes and maybe this can bring Pacificans together. A New Library is exciting, is positive, is wonderful.
This is the equivalent of the band continuing to play on deck as the Titanic sank.
"A New Library is exciting, is positive, is wonderful."
Whoever commented under Tea Party Republican, 9:54 AM, must have forgot the far-reverse movement does not support education. This anonymous is suspect for being a collective community "socialist" just like the rest of us.
How dare you try and explain my positions. How foolish of you.
Pacifica badly needs a New Library.
This Tea Party Republican does not hate Government, just overreaching government and overbearing government. A Library does not fall into that category.
Just think of the wonders such a library can attract.
"How dare you try and explain my positions." (TPR, 1:33 PM)
Well, the first insult was your self-ascribed anonymous identification label as "Tea Party Republican". Then your inconsistency with anti-education Tea Party rhetoric" once that was determined. Simply put: "You asked for it, you got it."
Planning for the future is good, but how urgent is the new library, we have two libraries, what happens to them? Meantime, one of the the nagging, persistent topics is the potenntial toward city disincorporation. Where is the money for an improved library or libraries?
I tend to agree more with Anonymous 10:00 AM in reference to the state-of-the-city: "the band continuing to play on deck as the Titanic sank." Unless explained further, the tune selection may include this one, the library.
Excuse me all to hell for being a buzz-kill, but one of the partners in this project is the City of Pacifica? Uh, is that the same Pacifica with the rapidly dwindling reserves (down to
less than $600K), the ridiculous Council, the crumbling, leaky infrastructure, and dare I mention 2 library branches that are quite functional? That's the partner? Survey says...Yes!
i agree that we don't have the money to fund this project, the idea is to have a developer pay for it when the city sells the area where the current city council meets for development, t that being said, what really frustrates me is that I agree - our two libraries are fully functional - maybe not "21st century" but functional, and MOST FRUSTRATING to me is that I live in Linda Mar, and our branch, the Sanchez is heavily used. I go there a few times a month to pick up books that I have requested on line. It always seems to have people in it, and none are complaining about how small or inadequate it is, it is also located very close to several senior apt. buildings which is good. when this branch is closed, i will be forced to drive all the way to the other side of town to get a book costing me more time and gas money - how is this fair to those of us on the south side of town? IT IS NOT!
No kidding. Of course the idea is to get a developer to pay for it. Maybe the developers would rather pay for their own ideas. What a concept! And has anyone seen a developer out here lately? People who should know better are living in the past. Meanwhile, putting this OWWTP fantasy on paper now is costing Pacifica hundreds of thousands of dollars. We are nearly insolvent. Is this a good use of public money? Is it good leadership? We have two very functional libraries in use. Maybe the professional librarians and library experts want a newer model but for most of us simple taxpayers, what we have is fine and we can barely afford what we have.
Once again, we're being distracted from our dire situation by the equivalent of council's story-time.
"the idea is to have a developer pay for it"
with an attitude like this, is it any wonder developers never come here?
Haha...And they're lining up to pay, right? Developers ten deep wanting to pay for Pacifica's fantasies. The odds of anything happening here in the next decade are slim, but they improve somewhat if we let the developers pay for what they want to build and then get the hell out of their way so they can build it. Shelling out a fortune on this pipedream now to overcome anticipated opposition from a Planning Commission or the public is irresponsible. It's an activity meant to distract us from impending disaster and council's responsibility in that. How much has Council spent on "showing a developer what Pacifica wants and might allow"? I think it was $300,000 in the previous hallucination and another $200,000 on this group therapy session. It would cost nothing to dump the Planning Commission and their anti-growth reputation. That reputation is a huge problem. Replace them at no cost with a reasonable, pragmatic Planning+Development Commission. Then, hire an experienced CA economic development expert because this is no game for amateurs. And we have put the future of this city in the hands of real amateurs, however well-meaning they might be, long enough. Let's hope November brings balance in our elected representation so we can move forward. If that doesn't happen, then the people have spoken, they are not ready for change, and this city's deterioration will continue to reflect their choices.
This is not coming from council. Could it be more of our own delusions or are we ready to pay for it?
Council approved the farce that this library fantasy is part of.
Lists the city as a partner and the city is spending $200,000 for some pretty drawings of what the city wants some nice developer to build including a brand new state-of-the-art library. Busy work. Yeah, when I think of Pacifica I think state-of-the-art. Wait a minute, we do have our state-of-the-fart water treatment plant. We're broke, crumbling, losing services, downsizing and outsourcing, gouging rate-payers, trying to raise taxes, but oh yeah we are so state-of-the-art.
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