Community Library Municipalities Discuss Contract Changes

Municipalities discuss Twin Lakes Community Library contract changes.  (West of the I, 1/18/2011)

Excerpt:   The five member municipalities are Salem, Twin Lakes, Paddock Lake, Randall and Silver Lake.

Twin Lakes Village President Howard Skinner acknowledged that some costs for the library need to be paid out of a common pool, like administration. However, he said his municipality would like to see surplus funds be desiugnated for spending in the municipalities where they came from.

“What we’re looking to do … is to make the agreement more equitable for all parties,” Skinner said.

But Paddock Lake village President and Library Board member Marlene Goodson attacked the idea that funds should be segregated as Skinner suggested, emphasizing that the joint library is built around all parities contributing to wherever money needs to be spent. She also said the Salem building is the main library for the system and that the other locations — in Silver Lake and Twin Lakes — are not true branches but “glorified bookmobiles.”

“If you feel you wanted a library, why are you part of the Community Library system?” Goodson asked Skinner. “It’s fair for (Twin Lakes funds) to go the the library (as a whole).”

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