public speaking - Students chip in ideas for city hall (Everett Herald)

Designs created by EvCC students could save Marysville time when it hires a consultant to draw up plans for its new city campus. The city got a head start on its planned new campus recently by accepting help from a group of business and engineering students at EvCC. The 21 students — most of whom had never done similar work before — broke into four groups of five or six apiece and in only five weeks came up with some detailed ideas for what could go into the permanent home the city hopes to start building as soon as a year from now. The new campus will likely be in either the Comeford Park area, where the city owns a lot of property, or near the site of the current planning and public works building, not far from Ebey Slough, Swenson said. The students spent time in Marysville, talking to city employees and looking over the two areas. The students also read the city's mind in some other areas, including environmentally "green" design — most of the students included solar panels for heating — and, in the case of the Comeford Park site, a pedestrian walkway over Fourth Street and rail access to the campus. read more

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