 Posted: Sat, May 25 2019, 11:08 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| By the way technically, the new library in Cranbury could be argued to have improved ADA access and accommodation. | |
| Posted: Sat, May 25 2019, 11:06 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| Do we really know enough about the ADA failures? There are groups that go around suing towns and businesses for ADA failures. If there was a true issue we'd see a lot of lawsuits. It could be that a library wants a grant to install new elevators for example.
Let's see where the grant goes before being such a complainer. |
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| Posted: Sat, May 25 2019, 9:32 am EDT Post subject: Library |
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| LIBRARIES MUST WAIT FOR ACCESS TO MUCH-NEEDED BOND FUNDS
COLLEEN O'DEA | MAY 20, 2019 Excerpted: A survey of members conducted last October by the New Jersey Library Association found that close to 140 libraries were planning to expand or renovate facilities to make them accessible to the disabled in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The State Library has been conducting its own survey. As of last Thursday, 60 libraries had responded and were seeking to spend $185 million in total on projects. ========================================== Notes to Cranbury Library Board & Director and TC: Do the math: $125 million Bond - $185 million project response = <$60 million> Do the ethics: Will state award wealthy Cranbury a new building vs 140 libraries requiring ADA compliance? |
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| Posted: Thu, May 2 2019, 1:37 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| Troll!! 👍🏻 | |
| Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2019, 3:41 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| Cranbury status - National Library Week 2019:
Director Mullen current salary $81,000 per annum. Even by generous definition Director Mullen is grossly overpaid in her position. No leadership skill to navigate the important library institution to function (and bloom) in it's current model. No business acumen to steward a new building. Director Mullen does have an acute bias to her neighbors and friends, and benefactors on the Board. She has no sense of inclusion to anyone not on Main Street. Cranbury needs a visionary, dynamic Library Director. SAVE OUR LIBRARY |
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| Posted: Fri, Jul 15 2016, 11:28 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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The library director is consumed by the prospect of a new building. Unfortunately this comes at the expense of the current library... reduced night and weekend hours; less programming; unrealized opportunities for efficiencies with the school; bloated payroll; elimination of library fundraising; etc. The fact is, we pay for and deserve a better library in the present. The question is, are the issues with the current library a result of incompetence or the result of being distracted by the prospect of a new library? If you think the issue is incompetence, then a change of leadership is in order; if you think this issue is the distraction of the prospect of a new building, then a change of focus is in order. Either way... Save Our Library! |
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| Posted: Fri, Jul 15 2016, 11:13 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| The TC has been clear there is no money coming. I asked Mr. Taylor and his response to me was the same as the paper. He has made a private pledge of money, but is opposed to the town spending money. It seemed from the conversation that this was a TC view as well as when asked he said he would be surprised if other TC members in this climate of expenses with affordable housing would approve funding.
The library also can't break ground until the town turn overs the land. So we'll see if the TC turns over land prior to funds being available. |
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| Posted: Fri, Jul 15 2016, 7:22 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| A recent flyer mailed out showed the library would break ground when there was still half a million left to raise. Perhaps that is what the previous poster was referring to. I think it showed half a million to raise until they would break ground, then another half million until they reached what is needed. So still a million short? | |
| Posted: Fri, Jul 15 2016, 4:37 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| The TC has no control over library surplus or budget only whether they provide additional funds which they do not do. Please know the facts. The library is funded purely by a state mandates tax. If the library earmarks funds for a new library, wages, books or any other item related to the library the TC cannot touch it. | |
| Posted: Fri, Jul 15 2016, 9:20 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| If the usage is so low that it is justified to close the library on Sunday, how can the Township Committee and Library Board feel it is justified to redirect a half million of taxpayer money to fund a new library building? | |
| Posted: Thu, Jul 14 2016, 9:42 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| The library in town is a nice amenity quite satisfactory as it is now. I get it that library aficionados want Sunday hours, but this library has very low usage with its current operating hours, it can not justify additional hours even on a 7th day.
The library board & foundation choose not to see beyond their myopia. A new library building will be dead weight on our fiscal shoulders. |
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| Posted: Wed, Jul 13 2016, 4:56 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| I think the library should be open on Sunday. The money received from the taxpayers for the library should be used to fund current operations instead of being saved for the new building. | |
| Posted: Wed, Jul 13 2016, 10:49 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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Very few people are going to support closing the library. Even the most ardent opponents of a stand alone library want a library in town. I can't see any TC member dissolving the library. As such as long as we have a library the TC has no power to defund the library as the funding is state law and the town is not contributing additional funds. |
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| Posted: Wed, Jul 13 2016, 8:45 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| The township does control the library despite what is claimed. The township can choose to fund or de-fund the library. If the town funds the library, there is a formula on what can be spent via a ratio of tax revenue. The town can choose to defund the library and choose to pay a fee to another town for use of their libary. The power of the purse is the ultimate control for the library. | |
| Posted: Wed, Jul 13 2016, 7:27 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| Spell check. I meant to say the TC controls neither school or library. | |
| Posted: Wed, Jul 13 2016, 7:26 am EDT Post subject: Re: Save Our Library |
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| The money from taxes is legally their money to do as they feel appropriate. Legally, they can allocate the money to a new building.
I do not know if you are correct about fundraising on tax payer time. I don't see pointing people to a post card as a material work. Further, the library employees are not two employees. The library has their own board. It is the same as the twp not controlling the school. While tax money goes to both the school and library the stack controls neither. |
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