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 Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 9:34 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Today's meeting is an open public meeting held in the library. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 9:36 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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I wish people would stop dancing around such a simple issue. It is no surprise that the library wants their own building. They have $500k+ socked away for furniture. The question is...
Should the Township pay for it?
(higher taxes)
Or should the library pay for?
(same taxes)
Or should the library give their annual surpluses back to the Township?
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Yes, simple. $500,000.00 on reserve in case the school asks the library to leave and it has no home.
Township could pay for it and ask voters in November
(higher taxes)
Township and Municipal Library partner to see what can be done for no increased taxes
(same taxes)
Or we vote to not have a public library
(no lower taxes as township would find a way to spend the $100.00 per tax payer) |
Or, why couldn't we have a non-binding public resolution to vote on that says:
1) The Residents of the Township (and thus the taxpayers and voters who fund the school and elect the school board) desire to maintain the status quo of the Library sharing with the school in its current location
2) That the school should significantly increase the rent it charges the Library for use of the space. This would have the effect of re-distributing some of the extra surplus from our tax assessment to our school budget and in turn this revenue could offset the amount the school needs from our taxes.
Our library is more than adequate in its current form for a Township our size. We don't need a new and separate one. And there should be clever ways to put the surplus to positive use without using it as an excuse to acquire or build a new library. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 9:36 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| true the meeting was not listed on the library web site yesterday. Do the sunshine laws apply for notice of such meetings? Is this a public meeting? |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 9:40 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Public meeting today 4:30 in the library. In accordance to the Open Meeting Act, adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the library director as follows: May 26 a notice for this meeting was sent to the Cranbury Press, Home News Tribune, Township Clerk and posted in the Public Library. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 10:03 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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The township sent out an email message on the 26 of May however in it was no mention of this meeting.
We are lucky the Cranbury Press covered this or else no one would have known.
from the email on may 26
The June 4, 2009 Development Review Committee meeting agenda has been posted.
http://www.cranburytownship.org/DRC_Agenda_06-04-09.html
The Cranbury Public Library’s events for June have been added to the Community Calendar.
http://www.cranburytownship.org/community_cal2009-06.html
Cranbury Township
23-A North Main Street
Cranbury , New Jersey 08512 |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 10:24 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Guest wrote: | The township sent out an email message on the 26 of May however in it was no mention of this meeting.
We are lucky the Cranbury Press covered this or else no one would have known.
from the email on may 26
The June 4, 2009 Development Review Committee meeting agenda has been posted.
http://www.cranburytownship.org/DRC_Agenda_06-04-09.html
The Cranbury Public Library’s events for June have been added to the Community Calendar.
http://www.cranburytownship.org/community_cal2009-06.html
Cranbury Township
23-A North Main Street
Cranbury , New Jersey 08512 |
It will be nice if the library can post events *and* the meetings of the board, especially if a meeting is related to funding of a new library using tax dollars. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 10:30 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | Meeting is posted on the library website
Friday, May 29
4:30pm
Special Meeting - Library Board of Trustees
The regular Board of Trustees meeting is Thursday, June 11
7:30 p.m.
Both meeting are in the Thomas Gambino Room of the library. |
So can the general public attend the special meeting at 4:30 today?
Where is it held -- the library? |
Interesting how the special meeting is held while people are working, but the regular meetings are held in the evening. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 11:14 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| The meeting will be held today, Friday, May 29 at 4:30 in the library and is open to the public. The agenda is posted in the library and in town hall. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 11:59 am EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| why do they need a special meeting for this? |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 2:46 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Guest wrote: | | Today's meeting is an open public meeting held in the library. |
I sure hope everyone can fit into the library, today. If not, we might have to build a bigger library just to accomodate all the people who want to complain about building/buying a bigger library. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 3:13 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| With half the surplus, we could buy a Kindle for every household in town. With the other half, you could remodel the existing space. If you remove (recycle) the books, there is plenty of space for special reading oriented programs run by the library staff. We would have the "greenest" library in America and would be a model for high-tech cost efficiency. We could probably qualify for grants, too. Let's take advantage of this opportunity to lead libraries in a new direction. |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 4:11 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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| Guest wrote: | | With half the surplus, we could buy a Kindle for every household in town. With the other half, you could remodel the existing space. If you remove (recycle) the books, there is plenty of space for special reading oriented programs run by the library staff. We would have the "greenest" library in America and would be a model for high-tech cost efficiency. We could probably qualify for grants, too. Let's take advantage of this opportunity to lead libraries in a new direction. |
Completely agree. Talking about building a bigger library these days is backwards thinking. We will need less room, not more. The surplus should be for more PC and means for people to access information electronically. Not a new building |
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| Posted: Fri, May 29 2009, 5:36 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Library wants to purchase PNC BANK or build new Library now! |
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I went to the library at 5:05 and no one was there. The doors were locked. I guess the meeting ended quickly? Or was it moved?
Can anyone provide details? |
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Kirstie Venanzi
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| Posted: Sat, May 30 2009, 12:32 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library and the PNC BANK building |
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| The Cranbury Public Library Board of Trustees met yesterday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the possibility of acquiring the building for a combined use community facility. The public library could be the anchor for that space with potential for community meeting rooms, senior space, archival facilities, and office space that could possibly be rented. The reality is that the school may soon need the full library space. We are planning for the future and we have the opportunity to look at the bank building now. However, the price may be too high, but we will not know unless we start the process. The library board's goal is to accomplish this without any increase in taxes and actually to save the town money. The minutes from the meeting will be posted on the library website after the board approves them on June 11. Marilynn Mullen instructed the staff to leave the library doors unlocked so that anyone could enter after 5 p.m. The meeting was over by 5:15 or so. Please consider coming to our next board meeting on June 11 at 7:30 p.m. |
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| Posted: Sat, May 30 2009, 4:27 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library and the PNC BANK building |
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| Kirstie Venanzi wrote: | | The Cranbury Public Library Board of Trustees met yesterday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the possibility of acquiring the building for a combined use community facility. The public library could be the anchor for that space with potential for community meeting rooms, senior space, archival facilities, and office space that could possibly be rented. The reality is that the school may soon need the full library space. We are planning for the future and we have the opportunity to look at the bank building now. However, the price may be too high, but we will not know unless we start the process. The library board's goal is to accomplish this without any increase in taxes and actually to save the town money. The minutes from the meeting will be posted on the library website after the board approves them on June 11. Marilynn Mullen instructed the staff to leave the library doors unlocked so that anyone could enter after 5 p.m. The meeting was over by 5:15 or so. Please consider coming to our next board meeting on June 11 at 7:30 p.m. |
So that that mean that the Library staff ignored their instructions and barred the public from access after 5 since the previous poster obviously experienced locked doors?
I keep reading that "the school may need the full library space." Not if we tell them they don't. They report to the taxpayers, the same ones involved here. So if the taxpayers want the school to share the library, the school will have to deal with it. So that can't be a reason in-and-of-itself. Someone needs to articulate why the school would need the full space in detail so we can decide for ourselves. We make the decisions, not them. |
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| Posted: Sat, May 30 2009, 11:41 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Cranbury Public Library and the PNC BANK building |
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I keep reading that "the school may need the full library space." Someone needs to articulate why the school would need the full space in detail so we can decide for ourselves. |
One contributing factor may be that additional COAH obligations are likely to increase the school population by roughly 12% by 2018. |
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