9-19-2025
The Library Board’s work with HGA, our architectural firm, has reached a point that we are ready to begin sharing the fruits of our labor. Just bear in mind, it isn’t quite harvest time.
The majority of our time with Kevin, Kim and Erica has basically been spent in various forms of brainstorming. Early meetings involved ranking images and individual elements, post it notes with question answers, charts to rank priorities and moved onto discussions of possible options both for an expanded building and a new build.
I’ve never talked so much about parking lots, their placement, or the flow of their entrances/exits.
As of last week, we have identified a preferred layout for each scenario: expand or build. On Tuesday, September 23rd, our team from HGA will present those options at the Tri Troy meeting and answer questions from members of the three municipal boards. It’s important to note that the presentation will include images, but they are by no means final. In order to highlight that and avoid anyone reacting positively or negatively to the, they are entirely white and grey. No finishes or color selection.
While HGA is polishing their presentation, Board Trustees looking at funding and a stakeholder meeting. We are researching possible grant money and tax-deductible donation accounts to assist with funding. The stakeholder meeting will be the second of three community input opportunities. The first was the brief survey handed out at local events and posted on Facebook and our website. That will remain open until mid-October. The third will be a Town Hall meeting at the library on Tuesday, November 11th and be open to the entire community.
The stakeholder meeting we are currently organizing will be by invitation and include roughly 30 people. These will be people in leadership positions throughout the East Troy area, but not necessarily elected leaders. For example, we will invite a representative from the IGET Community Center to come. As one of the few ADA accessible community space as opposed to rental spaces or venues, they receive more requests for meeting spaces than they can handle. Their input will help us better understand that need.
Our previous meetings have provided a floor plan that is essentially bubbles – colored shapes that indicate placement of various services and collections. Where are the community and programming spaces, where is the bathroom, where do the teens go, is the children’s area by the entrance or not? The stakeholder meeting will help identify how many study rooms of what size are needed? How many square feet should be given to the community room?
HGA will take that information and turn it into more detailed images and renderings for the November 11th Town Hall Meeting which is open to all as is the Tri Troy meeting on Tuesday.
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Listening to Now: Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
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