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anon-8845
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 Posted: Thu, Jan 31 2013, 12:50 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library |
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Correction $610,860 of our taxes are being held in a library slush fund for a new building we do not need built instead of using our taxes to keep the library open
| Kirstie Venanzi-0o99 wrote: | | Quote: | 1. How much of the $1.1M has been raised by the fundraising drive versus the surplus that had been built up due to the previously higher EV exceeding operating expenses? As of date, we have about $600.00 in saved money - over many years - for the sole purpose of having a home for the public library, and allowing the school to have their library. We have $500 plus in raised money and this is growing quickly
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Correction and update: This should read $610,860.10 in money saved for the future library. The foundation has raised $586,727.91 so far. Therefore, as of today, there is a total of $1,195,588.01 for the new building. |
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anon-q760
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| Posted: Thu, Jan 31 2013, 10:23 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library |
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| Kirstie Venanzi-1254 wrote: | Municipal Public Libraries are funded based upon EV (equalized evaluation) of a town. Cranbury's EV is lower again this year due to the recent economic downturn. To be fiscally responsible, the library board has voted to match our current funds to our current budget. Cranbury EV is very strong - the residential sector is already recovering. The library funding is sustainable - economically, socially, and the new library will be environmentally sustainable as well. The Cranbury Public Library has over 1.1 million dollars raised and saved for a our new home.
Please contact me or the library if you have any concerns, or questions. Our next library board meeting is February 14th 7:30 p.m. (we love our library).
Kirstie Venanzi, President, Cranbury Public Library Board of Trustees
609-655-8250
kvenanzi@ias.edu |
You folks should really have a fundraiser.
Contact anyone who ever lived, or even drove through Cranbury and ask them for a tax deductable donation. You never know who may be generous and give the library money instead of their sniveling children. Maybe encourage people to buy a book. Put out a list of books that you would like purchased, and when someone buys one, put their name or a dedication of some kind in the front of the book. Have you ever purchased books on Amazon or Alibris or some other website? I have purchased new books for a $1. from Amazon.
I'm all for it, so long as it is affordable to build AND to run. |
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anon-q760
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| Posted: Thu, Jan 31 2013, 10:26 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| a long time ago-8p94 wrote: | | publius-109q wrote: | | I would be all for a new stand-alone library if we had the finances to handle it. Obviously, we don't. Therefore, it's probably not such a good idea to do at this time. Should've made it bigger last time construction was done on it. |
Uhh, I think that would have been 1967. |
No. It was just a few years ago. When the school was added on to the library was expanded as well. Now go back to watching Honey Boo Boo! |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Thu, Jan 31 2013, 10:40 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| anon-q760 wrote: | | a long time ago-8p94 wrote: | | publius-109q wrote: | | I would be all for a new stand-alone library if we had the finances to handle it. Obviously, we don't. Therefore, it's probably not such a good idea to do at this time. Should've made it bigger last time construction was done on it. |
Uhh, I think that would have been 1967. |
No. It was just a few years ago. When the school was added on to the library was expanded as well. Now go back to watching Honey Boo Boo! |
What's your definition of "a few years ago" out of curiosity? |
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wrongaroo-8p94
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| Posted: Thu, Jan 31 2013, 11:05 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| anon-q760 wrote: | | a long time ago-8p94 wrote: | | publius-109q wrote: | | I would be all for a new stand-alone library if we had the finances to handle it. Obviously, we don't. Therefore, it's probably not such a good idea to do at this time. Should've made it bigger last time construction was done on it. |
Uhh, I think that would have been 1967. |
No. It was just a few years ago. When the school was added on to the library was expanded as well. Now go back to watching Honey Boo Boo! |
you may watch Honey Boo Boo. There was a reconfiguration a few years ago. I think they put in a bathroom. But the footprint is the same as it was in 1967. |
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anon-1254
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| Posted: Fri, Feb 1 2013, 5:14 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| Yes. That was 1999 and the public area got smaller... though it wasn't sold that way. |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Fri, Feb 1 2013, 10:26 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| LOL at the notion that 1999, as in the last century that passed 13 years ago, was "just a few years ago." |
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anon-8r50
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| Posted: Fri, Feb 1 2013, 11:00 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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the older folk lose track of time to them Kennedy was in office just a few years ago LOL 
| anon-97on wrote: | | LOL at the notion that 1999, as in the last century that passed 13 years ago, was "just a few years ago." |
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publius-q760
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| Posted: Fri, Feb 1 2013, 5:25 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| Don't make fun of your elders, ya young whippersnapping snipes. You and your Bluetooth ear thingies, and your I-pods and I-pads this and that. If you can unplug yerself from yer devices long enough you don't notice time passing. Stop fritting yer time away with trivial pursuits. |
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| Posted: Sat, Feb 2 2013, 11:20 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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Raising$600k in donations in this economy is remarkable. Apparently, there is some level of support for a stand alone library building in Cranbury. Will it be enough? We will have to wait and see.
Personally, as I sit here writing this post on my iPad having just recycled a bunch of unread newspapers and magazines, I don't have the same vision for the future as the library board members or their donors. |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Sat, Feb 2 2013, 12:04 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| On a different page-6103 wrote: | Raising$600k in donations in this economy is remarkable. Apparently, there is some level of support for a stand alone library building in Cranbury. Will it be enough? We will have to wait and see.
Personally, as I sit here writing this post on my iPad having just recycled a bunch of unread newspapers and magazines, I don't have the same vision for the future as the library board members or their donors. |
Agreed. I wish them all the best. If they can raise it all from private money from people who share their vision, that's awesome and more power to them. I don't share any of the bitter vitriol that some posters here do. I applaud trying to accomplish it that way instead of getting the Township to pay for it through bonds as past TC members tried to get done.
But it seems like they have a hard road unless they find either a major private whale or two or get major corporate sponsors. They have been hardcore on this campaign for the better part of two years to get to a bit less than $600,000. Then need $2,000,000 more unless the plan has changed, and that still doesn't even get them the parking lot extension. At that rate, they'll need another 6 years just to raise the money, not including the time to build. And that assumes they haven't tapped out their best prospects already. It's certainly possible, no doubt, but I think it will be hard work and no one who doesn't support it needs to be worrying about it anytime soon. |
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Kirstie Venanzi-1254
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| Posted: Sun, Feb 3 2013, 12:34 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| Libraries are not just about not just about books. They have always been learning centers..and now community centers, where you can learn about or even borrow the latest technology, attend a program on Cranbury history, a book discussion, become a Granpal, see preschoolers get excited about reading, or sit quietly reading a magazine. Books are still there as well as DVD s, music, databases, video games, books on CD, and expert advice. |
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| Posted: Sun, Feb 3 2013, 12:54 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| Are any specific locations for the potential new library being considered? |
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anon-109q
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| Posted: Sun, Feb 3 2013, 2:15 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library Short on Money: Cutting Hours-really!!?? |
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| Kirstie Venanzi-1254 wrote: | | Libraries are not just about not just about books. They have always been learning centers..and now community centers, where you can learn about or even borrow the latest technology, attend a program on Cranbury history, a book discussion, become a Granpal, see preschoolers get excited about reading, or sit quietly reading a magazine. Books are still there as well as DVD s, music, databases, video games, books on CD, and expert advice. |
Books will still have a place. Just like vinyl records and camera film have a place. It just won't be as big as it is now, and will become more antiquated as time goes by. You'll soon be able to fit the Library of Congress on a chip the size of a penny! |
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Kirstie Venanzi-1254
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| Posted: Sun, Feb 3 2013, 2:16 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Linear |
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| The Master Plan allocates space across the school parking lot from the present library. |
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anon-1254
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| Posted: Sun, Feb 3 2013, 2:35 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library |
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| Public libraries now function as community living rooms so we will still need space to gather. |
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