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Land Ho!
By plnkh | September 15, 2006
Land Ho!
The Library took a giant step toward getting a new building on Sept. 1 when library trustees signed a contract to buy a piece of land in the village. The 5 acre lot sits on Main Street next to the park created by the town and village on the old Salesian site. Due to the generosity of the property’s owner, Dr. David Cohen of Long Island, the library will be paying just $600,000, about two thirds of the land’s appraised value.
“It’s truly a win-win situation for library patrons and for Goshen,” says library board president Patty Garnett. “The library gets the land it desperately needs for a new building and the remainder of the former Salesian land in the village gets preserved for public use,” Garnett, who spearheaded the effort to get the land for the library, sees this as a culmination of 13 years of work searching for an answer to the library’s critical space shortage.
“Library boards over the years have reviewed what they felt was every possible solution, going over each one carefully and coming at them from every angle,” says Garnett. “Building a new library from the ground up is the only solution that has made economic sense. Getting a lot of this size in such a great village location is a real boon for the library and for the village,” she adds.
Garnett is also keenly aware of the concerns residents of the school district have about how much taxes might increase with the land purchase and, ultimately, the building of a new library.”Our main goals are, first, to build a library that adequately serves residents and, second, to minimize any tax impact through fundraising and grants,” says Garnett. “I’m confident we’ll be able to fund a large portion of this project with an energetic, community-driven capital campaign,” she notes.
Residents will be invited to attend an information session about the land purchase and building project in late fall. New information will be posted as it becomes available on the library website.
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