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anon-p22o
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 Posted: Sun, Mar 15 2015, 10:15 am EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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| anon-npo2 wrote: | The rent paid to the school is more a reimbursement of expenses. $30,000.00 is for the specially licensed custodian who has to be on duty while the library is open and the school is not.
The other $30,000.00 is for utilities used when the libraryl is open and the school is not. In other words, when the public library moves out, those expenses go away. No loss to the school.
About other costs: in past years, the school was not able to spend all they had budgeted for their school library due to lack of space. The school may decide to spend more because the school library does not meet NJ standards.
The school owns about half of the children's books. They have their own computers, furniture, staff. |
So how come the library payment to the school did not go down substantially when the library cut after school and Sunday hours? |
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anon-npo2
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| Posted: Sun, Mar 15 2015, 12:47 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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| It did go down about 10,000.00. The rent is adjusted annually. |
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anon-4rq4
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| Posted: Mon, Mar 16 2015, 7:33 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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| anon-0o99 wrote: | Kirstie Venanzi, President, Cranbury Public Library Board of Trustees
Lack of space:
Library Consultant Karen Avenick in her Cranbury Public Library Assessment April 2008 page 7 states “The residents of Cranbury desire and deserve excellent library services. It is extremely difficult for the [public] library to provide such services in cramped and shared spaces that are not designed for efficiency and effectiveness. The space affects what can be offered to Cranbury residents, as well as the way that they are offered, therefore, the Cranbury Public Library needs and deserves more space to offer excellent customer service to its residents.” |
I suppose we should take comfort knowing that when you pay a library consultant $25,000 to tell you that you need a new library, she tells you that you need a new library. Otherwise, this quote from Ms, Avenick is nothing more than poorly written unsubstantiated dribble. |
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School-o537
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| Posted: Mon, Mar 16 2015, 8:09 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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Since the late 1960s, the Public Library has shared a small space with the Cranbury School Library, an arrangement that worked 40 years ago, but no longer meets the needs of the community or the school, according to a press release from the library fund-raising committee.
Does the school endorse this? if so maybe the school should pay for the new library. |
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anon-sp0n
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 17 2015, 2:55 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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| School-o537 wrote: | Since the late 1960s, the Public Library has shared a small space with the Cranbury School Library, an arrangement that worked 40 years ago, but no longer meets the needs of the community or the school, according to a press release from the library fund-raising committee.
Does the school endorse this? if so maybe the school should pay for the new library. |
That would just be taxpayer money from a different line item. Any suggestion of taxpayer money should be put to a full public, and not just TV or School Board, vote. |
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school tax-0482
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 17 2015, 8:55 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Library Space Constraints: Fact or Fiction? |
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| The school wants the library to leave? I hope the school is ready to pay for the new library then I guess our school taxes will be going way up soon |
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