Catching Up with the News @ the Poynette Area Public Library

 

Petition puts boards at odds.  (Poynette Press, 8/7/2012)

Excerpt 1:    After airing some frustration at library board members and fellow trustees, board members approved 3-2, with Diana Kaschinske abstaining and Henry DeBoer absent, a resolution to include on Poynette's general election ballot the referendum, "Should the Village Board of Poynette consider the library expansion into the historic Jamieson (Little Blessings) building as the first and best library expansion option?

Frustration expressed by the seemingly screeching -- at least that's how it sounds to me when I read this article -- Diana Kaschinske, village board members.  

[Directed at fellow board members Dave Hutchinson.]    

Excerpt 2:   I don't care about that.  We are here every Monday night ... why was it never brought to us as a communication, as a meeting? does it have to come in from the backside? Is that cool? Is that what you want? They have money for this?  Answer me this, you seem to know so much else."

Diana is calmly provided with a memory refresher.

Excerpt 3:  Poynette Area Public Library Director Kris Daugherty said the petition, which was discussed in front of trustees at a July Committee of the Whole meeting, did not come from library board members or library staff.

Time for a library "time out" on library expansion.  (Poynette Press, 8/16/2012)

It's not really an exercise in false equivalencies, but Assistant Editor Scott De Laruelle's column doesn't go very deep.  Probably because he wants to keep his job.

Guess we'll have to read the Portage Daily Register to keep up with the the village board's occasional dysfunctions.

Letter from Library Board President Bob Garske.  Just to clear the air.  (Poynette Press, 8/17/2012)

Excerpt:    More than 70 citizens attended and expressed their concerns at an August 2011 village board meeting. A news release appeared in the Poynette Press on Feb. 21, 2012, stating that the library board was "going on record as favoring the expansion of the library into the Jamieson building, though stating the preference "does not preclude our willingness to consider options that may be proposed by the Poynette Village Board.'" 

That the petition came as a surprise to the village board seems quite strange since there were numerous meetings between library board and village board members where the Jamieson/Little Blessings building option was discussed going back to 2010. These include the village board/library liaison committee meetings, the library board meetings and the downtown redevelopment committee meetings.

Related posts:
Space crunch.  (3/8/2012)
Keeping the lines of communication open. 12/15/2011)
Poynette library board president takes village board to task for poor communication. (11/26/2011)
The library as Poynette's anchor store.  (11/10/2011)
Poynette redevelopment project includes space for library.  (9/29/2011)