New Capitola library will be on Wharf Road

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24 years old! OMG I can't believe it's not condemned.

The Accountant wrote:

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So its OK for others to have to cross Wharf road so that you don't have to? There are many of us who use the bridge to cross over to the 'mall' side of Capitola to access the library.

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Here we go again!!! If our current library system can't maintain, why are we considering building any bigger satellite branches, SV or Cap or Felton? If you have money to throw at a new building, better to save it to keep your current one open!!
Ms. Landers, I hope you are reading OR are you just a puppet on a string, the string held by the builders & consultants who are even suggeesting this! Congrats on your new job but before you start clapping your hands at any new library structures, consider the ones we already have & do us all a favor to restore hours to already existing building.
All of you who think a new library will be sooo gravy, take a look at Boulder Creek's library, still brand new & CLOSED all but 12 hours a week!
What is the sense in this?

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FYI, although it is called the "Capitola Library" it is a Santa Cruz County Public Library for both the Capitola and Soquel cities. Access to and from either site will mean that someone will have to cross Wharf Rd., and luckily there are crosswalks and Stop signs there. The Rispin site, however, sitting as it does on the river side, actually provides a safer access for schoolchildren - all of the local schools are sited beyond Bay Ave.- Soquel High, Main St. Elementary, Soquel Elementary, and New Brighton Middle - not to mention safer access to all of the elderly who live in the major senior building on Bay, and beyond.
In addition, the entrance to the Rispin Library site can be built at the Stop sign of Clares & Wharf Rd., making this a much more accessible and safer right-hand turn or left-hand turn, then the existing turns to enter the driveway of the current library location! That drive is on a blind curve, and forget about turning left there -

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A new library, really? We cannot afford to pay the people who work there now, but we need bigger and better? Geez....government at it's finest!

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Seems someone always brings the poor school children into the mix. The school children have their own libraries and internet access, guess where, at school.

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The library system isn't paying for the building, the City of Capitola is. They decided they wanted a library 12 years ago, and part of the agreement was they would build it, and the library would staff it. Those funds can't be spent on staffing the other branches for longer hours. Try doing a little research.

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Seems someone always brings the poor school children into the mix. The school children have their own libraries and internet access, guess where, at school.

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Oh if only I were as smart as you! Thank you, but I'm quite aware the library will staff it, but if the library is currently unable to maintain adequate staff in the current library, isn't building a new library banking on the current staffing which is on the fritz? My point is go build it, will there be money to staff it? Try thinking long-term.