Conceptual Master Plan - Emeryville Center of Community Life

ECCL Presentation
3-31-09
3:00 – 4:15pm
Anna Yates Elementary School Staff Meeting
Comments/Minutes:
Mark Schatz of Field/Paoli and Tad Sekino of HKIT presented the abbreviated power
point presentation on the Center of Community Life (did not show the video giving
project background due to time constraints).
Verbal comments/questions and answers given at the presentation included:
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Anna Yates Librarian Comments:
o Isolating the library away from the elementary grades is a concern.
Currently the library is in the middle (heart) of the campus and is open
during recess for drop-in use. One of the most important things we do
here is getting young people to read and making the library a fun site. She
likes that the library is a place for fun and hanging out, it took her a long
time to build this ethic and it helps encourage life long reading.
o Sharing the library could also be a problem, could be intimidating to have
older children in the room at the same time.
o Collection at golden gate library is small, not really a great resource to
students or the community. AYES has many books that are not available
at golden gate for students.
Mark commented we could design two separate libraries or a joint
library with two separate areas of circulation.
Access to the library for public?
o It’s a school library only at the moment.
Is the play area secure?
o Yes, its fenced from public/street and different ages are also separated.
I want to know more about sharing space? My concern is I might be working
after school and someone else would kick me out for another program.
o We want people to be able to share these spaces to be more efficient.
There are more complications to work out, but its more environmentally
sound to make less impact on the communities.
o There is a next phase that this will be flushed out with teachers, probably
workshops, to get the consensus and best idea to work this out…because
its not settled yet.
Will there be weekends access?
o Yes, this is when the adults/general community will most likely use
building.
A suggestion to deal with shared space: Please incorporate little offices attached
to each classroom that offer secure space and places to work if others are using
the classroom.