Town may double up construction in bid to save money Continued from pg. 1 Not only would the Town save money to do the work at the same time as the library expansion, the local neighbourhood would be impacted only once by construction, he said. Funding for the enhancements will be separate from the capital funding set aside for the library expansion, and must still be voted on by council at a future meeting. Director of Library Services Jane Diamanti said she is comfortable with the approach the Recreation and Parks Department is taking, especially after getting assurance that there will be no encroachment on library space. Both she and library board current size. Construction is building committee chair not scheduled to begin until Sheila Taylor participated in 2008. the visioning exercise, and Phase one of the expanwas happy there could be sion project has already improvements to the lobby, begun with consultation sesentrance and washrooms, sions with key stakeholders, which the library board has and an opportunity for the been wanting for a long time. public to comment on preThe Georgetown branch liminary designs will likely library was given the gobe held in early April. No JANE ahead last year to expand specific dates have been set DIAMANTI onto a property immediately yet. to the south on Market Street. After gathering feedback Early estimates suggest that this expan- from the public and staff, Chamberlain sion might be in the range of 14,000 will produce a number of site/concept square feet, meaning that the drawings, to be presented to town counGeorgetown branch would double its cil in the late spring. Chamberlain has much experience with the construction of public librarieshaving designed eight in the last 10 years across Ontario, several of which required the integration of historic buildings. Diamanti said the library board and staff welcome the opportunity to work closely with the community, and with such a knowledgeable and well-regarded architectural team. "Together we will create a library that is functional, accessible, attractive and complementary of the church's heritage features-- it will be a civic asset of which we can all be proud," she said. Web site woes nearing an end The Independent & Free Press web site is still undergoing work and while some progress has been made, we still have some bugs to work out. On Tuesday of this week we made the transition to switch all existing content and domains for The Independent & Free Press online publication to the new Torstar Digital servers now used to host our editorial site. However, because of this change users should not use any old bookmarks for The Independent & Free Press as the bookmarks will direct users to the main page of our sister paper-- The Brampton Guardian. Users should access The Independent & Free Press site: www.independentfreepress.com. As well, this new system will only cater to the top 10 most used browsers and versions. Users should upgrade to one of the following browsers. Internet Explorer 6+ FireFox 1.5+ Mozilla 1.5+ Opera Safari We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this work and hope to have the new and improved site in proper working order as soon as possible.