A lot of people would ask what was going on next door, not realizing that it is, in fact, the library that's doing it, |
All the reactions so far have been positive, and I think people are excited by what they see happening. I think they're excited to see that we'll be able to do more. We'll have more space for books, we'll have more room for programming, we'll have more parking. |
I know the big crash is coming one of these days, |
I'm all for a new senior center. But I'm a little confused as to how we can allocate funds to a private organization in this case, and not for another, |
Members of P&Z went over this and there were residents at the P&Z meeting. There have been noise studies done. They have been giving this a lot of planning. With the fence and trees, the studies said there would probably be less noise from the center than there is now - from the highway. |
That day, there was nothing major going on, |
This just presented itself as the opportune time to go ahead and do the upgrades that are necessary and at the same time take a significant portion of that $2.15 million to add the space that we need to take us into the next generation of library service, |
This will be paid for, there's no debt. We're not going to do have to do a levy and ask for money from anybody, |
We had three good presentations. We couldn't go wrong with any of them - but we had to choose one. |
You guys have an awesome job. I don't envy you but I admire your taking it on. The city is very interested in cooperating. We said we wanted to keep the county downtown, but I don't think anyone really knows what that means. We have a 100-year history with the county downtown. It's not so much of an economic thing. But my mind has no grasp of what we're talking about. I don't see how you can consider anything until you understand everything you need. It's frustrating to talk about this until we know how much we need. |