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Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 8:49 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Guest wrote: How did Princeton come up with 18 million to redue their library. It's breathtakingly beautiful, but, do we really need one that badly? I guess if they can raise the money, fine, but, thats an awful lot of bake sales!!!!!! redo. I spelt it incorrectly. spelled. Thank you.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 8:48 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school How did Princeton come up with 18 million to redue their library. It's breathtakingly beautiful, but, do we really need one that badly? I guess if they can raise the money, fine, but, thats an awful lot of bake sales!!!!!!
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 5:53 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Guest wrote: Quote: Parking is what is needed for downtown not a library One must have a reason to park. I guess you can go in cirucles on this one. I still don't understand your logic. You actually believe giving the library its own building on the other side of the school parking lot from the shared one will dramatically increase traffic to it and that this in term will cause more people to shop Main Street? And since we're not increasing the operating costs of the library supposedly, the only difference is it has its own building? You may want to relax a little on the Kool-Aid.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 5:50 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Guest wrote: Because we are losing our downtown. Businesses are finding it hard to stay there. Perhaps soon we will just become part of subburbia, with no reason to be in the heart of our community. Having a thriving, vital public library in the downtown is important. So you really believe simply added another building, not on Main Street itself but simply on the opposite site of the school parking as the current library a few hundred feet from it makes the difference between a thriving downtown business district or not? Do you have anything other than your instinct or theory to go on because that seems like a really big assumption and leap of faith.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 5:44 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Quote: Parking is what is needed for downtown not a library One must have a reason to park. I guess you can go in cirucles on this one.
guests	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 5:35 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Seems to me that building another structure and impairing our precious "Field of Dreams' scenic vista is sacrilegious. One thing that must be brought into the equation is that all of these projects have costs to the taxpayers in perpetuity. Even if the structure or any field or project is "free" there are the"Other Costs". For example: if you look at the mostly unused bulletin board in front of the municipal building, that was a Boy Scout project. That Eagle Scout Project was donated to the township, when it self destructed it cost a couple thousand of our taxpayers dollars to build a new one to replace the donation! That project will cost us a bundle for years to come. There really needs to be a true cost analysis prior to embarking on any of these projects.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 4:18 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Guest wrote: Because we are losing our downtown. Businesses are finding it hard to stay there. Perhaps soon we will just become part of subburbia, with no reason to be in the heart of our community. Having a thriving, vital public library in the downtown is important. Parking is what is needed for downtown not a library
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 1:46 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Because we are losing our downtown. Businesses are finding it hard to stay there. Perhaps soon we will just become part of subburbia, with no reason to be in the heart of our community. Having a thriving, vital public library in the downtown is important.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 12:09 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Quote: A public library in our down town area is important to us...to continue to keep Cranbury being Cranbury. I don't understand this logic. If we have not had a separate stand-alone downtown library so far, why is creating one "important" to "keep" Cranbury being Cranbury"? If you want to argue it would be a nice or useful thing, that's certainly a valid opinion. But how do you argue that changing something from the way it has been is important to maintain the character of the town as it has been?
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 11:20 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school The Cranbury Public Library Foundation is starting a capital campaign to raise the money.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 11:18 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school The master plan has the future library across the parking lot from its current location and, yes, next to the ballfield.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 11:05 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school How will they raise 3 million bucks? Will they build the new library on the baseball field to nowhere?
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 9:32 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Guest wrote: Quote: There is no need for a free standing library, that would be a LUXURY that would not be in the best interest of the majority of taxpayers. The continuing maintenance and personel costs would be one more tax drain . We now have too many other drains on our funds. If one looks at all the maintence costs for SPORTS and the new irrigation well for the fields and the bottomless baseball field expenses we are digging another pit for our tax dollars. We pick our "luxuries". Our extremely well funded school is a luxury for an example. A public library in our down town area is important to us...to continue to keep Cranbury being Cranbury. Anyone who wants a real public library seems to go to Plainsboro or Monroe. We are in danger of losing our library...getting swallowed up in the megastructure of the school. If the public library can do this on the 1% of our taxes, plus fund raising, great. Actually, I wouldn't even mind 2% of my taxes because the library is so important to our community, and will finally be for the whole community. This is where I disagree. I fully support them raising the funds and building a library through their own cash and then funding the operation through the existing rate even if the town is legally allowed to decrease it in the future. However, increasing their funding by 1% is to me not a point of discussion and I have yet to hear a library member ask for it either which is good. That would mean close to or over a million dollars (depending on the level of property value in the town) going to the library each year.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 8:59 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Compare percentage of taxes - at least 55% for shool. Township is about 24%, about County 20%.
Guest	Posted: Mon, Dec 6 2010, 8:55 am EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school Quote: There is no need for a free standing library, that would be a LUXURY that would not be in the best interest of the majority of taxpayers. The continuing maintenance and personel costs would be one more tax drain . We now have too many other drains on our funds. If one looks at all the maintence costs for SPORTS and the new irrigation well for the fields and the bottomless baseball field expenses we are digging another pit for our tax dollars. We pick our "luxuries". Our extremely well funded school is a luxury for an example. A public library in our down town area is important to us...to continue to keep Cranbury being Cranbury. Anyone who wants a real public library seems to go to Plainsboro or Monroe. We are in danger of losing our library...getting swallowed up in the megastructure of the school. If the public library can do this on the 1% of our taxes, plus fund raising, great. Actually, I wouldn't even mind 2% of my taxes because the library is so important to our community, and will finally be for the whole community.
Guest	Posted: Sun, Dec 5 2010, 8:49 pm EST    Post subject: Re: Cranbury wants to move township library out of local school guests wrote: There is no need for a free standing library, that would be a LUXURY that would not be in the best interest of the majority of taxpayers. The continuing maintenance and personel costs would be one more tax drain . We now have too many other drains on our funds. If one looks at all the maintence costs for SPORTS and the new irrigation well for the fields and the bottomless baseball field expenses we are digging another pit for our tax dollars. If the library can build it without tax payer dollars then I have no issue. There is no need for increased staff and the township can refuse to give them money beyond what is legally required. Since they would not give them money to build I don't see them giving additional money for other costs.