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PRESENTATION TO THE SELECTMEN <br /> (Rough Draft) <br /> Good evening gentlemen. it has been six months since our <br /> last meeting. During that time we have taken,your thoughtful <br /> suggestions and concerns for review. We have come up with-some <br /> new and exciting cost reduction strategies. <br /> The committee and i can now envision the day when we will all be <br /> standing with shovels in our hands readying for the ground breaking <br /> for Mashpee's much needed new library. '.During,this brief <br /> presentation, we will review the: reasons why Mas' h pe'e,desperately <br /> needs a new library, why we_have chosen the-site that'we_have, the <br /> new cost reduction measures that we haVe.made, the staff increases <br /> needed for the.new b uilding, the cost t <br /> o. Mashpee,' taxpayers and the <br /> plans'for fund raising. My talk will be followed by Stewart.Roberts's <br /> presentation of the new design changes with a more detailed <br /> . elaboration of the associated cost reductions. We will fake questions <br /> and answers after Stewart's presentation: Fasten your seat belts for <br /> the revised view of Mashie's new library. We hope' that you will <br /> become as excited as we are. <br /> Let's review again why Mashpee.'needsa new library.. <br /> -- When the' current librarywas planned'in the early 19809, the <br /> population was 3,7Q0 residents. By the time the library was bbilt in <br /> .1986, the population was 5,141. When,9the doors opened, the library <br /> was inadequate in size. It was not suffic'ie' nt for the needs of the <br /> -------- ------populatio'n--according-to-standards-setfor-asize <br /> -populatio�-thafi- .-�--�Our,- -- � �- <br /> current population is now 14,044 with growth estimations of 17,600 <br /> residents when Mashpee build out occurs. According to Eric Smith's <br /> report in the 7996 Comprehensive Town Plan' for Mashpee' , he says <br /> that we should have' a '16,085-sq. ft. b uilding for' a population of <br /> X4,400. He based this on the Wiscon' sin Library Standard Planning <br /> Guidelines. Mr.. Smith considers this the most detailed guidelines <br /> available at that time. Our library is 11 ,000sq. ft. short. According to <br /> Stewart Roberts, who. has been involv'e' <br /> d in the' design and <br /> construction at 1"Many libraries,'the standard used by most towns in <br /> Mass a ch u sefts is- 1 .5-2 sq. feet pe r 1,000 population. B y those <br /> standards, our library should be 21,000.1to 28,000 square feet NOW <br /> with our current population. You can do the math fior a population of <br /> 17,600. So you see, how severely undersized our library is. The town <br /> cannot provide the necessary services.far Mashpee's growing <br /> population. A library, like the p <br /> ublic ser'-vices of fire and police is for <br />