Young High School principal Keith Duran has welcomed the unveiling of new designs of the joint use library and community facility.
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The building will be located on Young High School grounds and will face Carrington Park.
Building and landscape designs were endorsed by councillors at Wednesday's Hilltops council meeting at Harden.
The building will be two-and-a-half levels with areas of exclusive use and areas of shared use between the public and the school.
"This an absolutely fantastic opportunity for the Young High School and the Department of Education in the Hilltops region," Keith Duran said.
"The design is very strategic around placing students and classes in an area of the building, the community accessing other parts of the building, and bookable spaces being accessible to both parties through the day and at different times as well."
Mr Duran said the joint project between Hilltops council and the Department of Education will provide the community with huge opportunities.
"In joining forces we create a resource that provides technology, it provides the latest infrastructure, it provides 21st [century] learning opportunities for students.
"It creates an opportunity of wealth for not just youth of the town but all of the people of the town as lifelong learners. It brings together school academic resources and the town's resources, it provides everyone with access to a wealth of technologies and learning spaces that haven't existed in this community before."
He said he has no concerns about the project, however appreciates concerns expressed by different people, including security and child safety.
"People come and visit schools on a daily basis. We work with adults, we work children and everyone has a priority around ensuring child protection and safety issues are addressed. So as long as we put the protocols in place that are important around those structures, things will go really well."
Council has agreed to provide $6.5m to the project, with the Department of Education responsible for funding the remainder.
Mayor Brian Ingram explained that council has negotiated a deal to recover its $6.5m if the project fails in the first 10 years.
"If something happened and council was asked to remove itself from the building I wan't some guarantees we get our money back so we can go somewhere else," he said.
"It's in the deed, currently as it stands, if something was to happen, unforeseen, in the first 10 years of this agreement, Hilltops council would recoup their complete $6.5m. That is a done deal. From 10 years onward it would then come down in accordance with each year.
"You'd like to think that possibility will never occur."
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