Hello everyone,
The third and final public meeting for the Mendenhall Valley Library project is set for November 6th, 6:30 PM, in the current Valley Library inside Mendenhall Mall. The design team will be sharing a near-final site and floor plan, along with sharing details on interior design, furniture, and a number of 3D images depicting various spaces in and out of the library.
This public meeting coincides with the wrap up of the last major stage of development. Between the end of this meeting and February of next year, the architects will be hard at work consolidating all of the work they've done so far, in combination with staff and public feedback, to produce a set of construction documents that will be used to solicit bids for the project. The plan remains to advertise for bids in early March of next year, and award a contract in April.
If you're unable to make this meeting, you still have a couple of ways to participate in the process. A display is in place at the Valley library where you can review the floor plan and submit comments. We'll be updating the display after this last public meeting. I'll also update this website with the presentation materials shown at the public meeting. These, along with other documents posted in the past, can be found on the documents page of this website. Another option is to simply shoot me an email.
This continues to be an exciting, well managed, and on budget project. We've significantly benefited from the large amount of public interest and participation we've had to date and I'm very much looking forward to this last meeting.
I hope to see you there,
Robert Barr
Library Director
Juneau Public Libraries
