I'd love for you to
paint a quick picture, Alex
of just like what really
is going to go on here.
I mean, yeah, we talked about
you know, the kind of
mission statement thing there
but like
paint a picture for us.
Like, we're sitting right here
in our senior space.
So this is one of the programs
that's ready to go
because so many of our seniors
once they've retired
they just seem to disappear.
We don't see them anymore.
So we want them to come out
and have a place
to hang out
right next door
to our children's library
where they can help young
young readers.
But the special thing that
I want people to know, Murv
is that we're only designing
about 25% to 30%
of the programs here.
Because we want the community
to come in and say
'You know what we need?'
Like, someone came in here
the other day
who's newer to their job
and they said
'We need an NABJ, like
National Association
of Black Journalists.'
There's one in Milwaukee
that I'm sure you're
familiar with it.
I am.
But because there's a
space to host it
someone said, 'We got to
to do a Madison version.'
That's the beauty of this space.
Like, that's not my job
to do that.
A journalist came in here
and said that.
Others have come in and said
'You know
we need a doula program.
Can we do that here?
We need self-defense
programs for
Black women and moms.
Do we have
can we do that here?'
So for me
the beauty of the program is
when we have space
to come in together and say
'Let's create an association' or
'Let's do something
to bring all the Greek
organizations together.'
The beauty of this is
I built it
I've worked to fund it
but the community is going to
have to fill it.