Even with a slightly larger Shute, Everett will still have less than the 1 square foot of library space per capita which the state recommends. The Shute is definitely important to our delivery of library services.

Our offices were too small. The company couldn't grow in that space.

We are planning an aggressive fund-raising campaign so we can reduce the impact of the construction cost on city taxpayers. Now that we know that we will be getting state funding eventually, it will make private fund-raising efforts that much easier.

The new fund will be playing in different space, but you can make some assumptions about how it might perform by looking at Strategic Equity Fund.

We will more than double the space that we’re in now, which is just a blessing because we’re sitting on one another’s shoulders in there,

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,