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Library Directions
By plnkh | June 28, 2007
The April 18 vote on our 2007-8 budget was an historic occasion. 831 voters turned out to re-elect Laura Engle as trustee and approve the tax levy of $1,139,981 for our operation by a nearly 2-1 margin. We appreciate your support, and the validation that the voting results provide.
New for this summer is a reading club for adults. A generation of Goshen’s youth have grown up with a summer reading club. It’s about time that the adults were given an opportunity to share in the fun. We hope the club will be well received and you will demonstrate to the skeptics that books are eternal. “Literature is news that stays news” according to poet Ezra Pound. [The club is limited to 100 registrants, and all places were filled in five days!]
The hot topic in the library is the new building. Since we acquired the land, we have been moving forward to develop a project to present for a vote next spring. We have a site plan and a building design. We are now interviewing construction management firms to develop a detailed project budget. Since 1994 you have been asking “Where will it be located?” “What will it look like?” and “How much will it cost me?” It will be located adjacent to the Salesian Park. Renderings and floor plans are included in the insert to the summer newsletter which provides details of the building plan. The answer to your third question is pending.
While we are waiting for hard numbers there is not a lot more to report. A lot of the planning is bureaucratic drudgery. Because a new building is a once-a-century opportunity for many communities, only the largest libraries have facilities planning staff. We must hire outside professionals to provide those services.We are also developing a corps of volunteers who have been helping us every step of the way. We have negotiated with the village and town to allow a temporary easement across our land for traffic to the park’s lot; a later step will be the permanent access road to serve the library and the park.
I expected our summer newsletter to be mailed the week of June 18. We changed the format and added an insert on the building plans which our printer could not handle. In the process of making alternate arrangements we lost two weeks. The newsletter is now being printed and it should be mailed next week. I apologize for the inconvenience caused by past dates for program registrations. It seems there is always something.
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