Eye On Port Chester
Let's solve the year old Port Chester Library Funding Problem once and for all.
Let's hope that Mayor Gerald Logan and the entire Port Chester Board Of Trustees are in attendance for the Library Meeting on January 17th. Port Chester Board attendance has been disgraceful lately.
Port Chester will need a full board there in order to solve the library funding problem.
Port Chester and Rye Book both have to decide what they are going to do.
Rye Brook has a very, very good deal. If the want to walk away and spend more money then let them waste their citizen's tax dollars.
Either we’re going to have a library with Rye Brook or we’re not.
If not, then we have to roll up our sleaves and fix the Port Chester Library.
First lets get rid of Bruno and Kathleen Giofree and then lets start spending the 3 million dollars the library has to start fixing up the place.
No one in Port Chester can truely say that they think that Mayor Gerald Logan will go against his realitives the Giofrees.
Rye Brook has insisted that part of the negotiation was the library name change.
As part of any funding agreement, Rye Brook had asked that the name of the library be changed to the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library, which is major problem with many long time library patrons.
Many is Port Chester feel that a name change shouldn’t be part of these negotiations.
However, these people need to undderstand that the library has repeatedly changed its name over the years.
Ask Goldie Soloman about the Peck Library.
Rye Brook says that it is willing to increase its percentage of funding from the 30% to 35 % it currently gives in exchangge for the name change.
This is not enough
If Rye Brook wants 50% of the name, then they need to pay 50% of the bill..
Port Chester Trustee Robert Sorensen has worked very hard on the library funding and name change issues.
Port Chester Trustee Dan Brakewood has had innovative ideas about the possibility of a library district.
Maybe Mayor Gerald Logan and his Giofree relations should step a side and let Soreensen and Brakewood hammer out a deal with Rye Brook.
The meeting on January 17th will be moderated By NYU Professor Allen Zerkin. Lets hope Professor Zerkin knows the issues and can get this year old library funding problem solved.
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