Capitola library location undecided after 2-2 vote

Brilliant; the present trailers can't be staffed 5 full days a week and these smart people want to build another.

Unfortunately RDA funds can be used outside the district. Witness Jan Beautz' desire to dump her Live Oak low income, high density housing projects into Felton. Fortunately, that attempts failed.

rwc wrote:

Brilliant; the present trailers can't be staffed 5 full days a week and these smart people want to build another.

Are you suggesting that if there can't be '5 full days/wk' that we shouldn't have a library?

Bunny wrote:

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Are you suggesting that if there can't be '5 full days/wk' that we shouldn't have a library?

We have a library already, one that, due to insufficient funds, can't stay open. Why do we need to build, buy, or lease a larger one?

We did not need the first library, that property should have been made into a park, not paved. Live Oak has a library nearby, so does Soquel. We don''t need libraries every 1.3 miles. It is terrible the same handful of the same old people with the same wasteful mindset keep appointing each other to never ending committees and councils in Capitola.

Say, how about we have Capitola's "Library by the Sea" and put it on the site of the theater that the Council is so hot to demolish. Books by the Seashore, I say!! This will encourage reading on the sand on a warm day, a much healthier thing to do rather than smoking on the sand and the sidewalk, no? We'll even let our good friend Barry Swenson build the library on his property. If he doesn't want to do that, why we could just use Eminent Domain and TAKE the property from him. Isn't that how government works? "For the good of the people, a common compelling interest."
Say, this could lead to even bigger things--along with the no smoking ordinance, we could expand the Esplanade area to a library zone--no talking louder than a whisper!! Could be pretty nice, people reading books on a summer day, and no noise.

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We have a library already, one that, due to insufficient funds, can't stay open. Why do we need to build, buy, or lease a larger one?

That is a temporary library. The city promised to build a new one, with some funds from the library district, by 2018. If the city doesn't then bye bye library.