On the ballot: A town library
Voters in the Town of Union Vale will head to the polls this year to weigh in on a proposal on whether the town should “own and operate a public library.”
To offset taxpayer costs, renovations to transform the second floor of an old dairy barn into the library at the town-owned Tymor Park will be funded by donations and grants from the Union Vale Library Fund, a non-profit, with operating costs, and the ability to access federal and locally-funded programs – currently restricted to town cardholders – to be funded by the town’s annual budget, if approved by voters.
Union Vale Library cardholders are currently restricted from borrowing certain items in the Mid-Hudson Library System, and cannot access the library’s locally-funded online services such as Hoopla and Kanopy. Those restrictions were put in place after a request from neighboring libraries – Beekman, Dover, Lagrange and Millbrook – since the town does not provide “equitable funding” to help subsidize library services, and “five-percent or more of the impacted library’s circulation of library materials is attributed to the residents of a town without their own library.” [ source ]
A Q+A session on the proposal with library trustees, library fund members and the town board will take place on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from 7-8pm at the library, located at 8 Tymor Park Road, Lagrangeville. https://uvlibrary.org/event/qa-session-with-library-trustees-library-fund-members-and-the-town-board/
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