Two things about the Mayor's schools post: He claims to want citizen involvement but then dismisses the citizen committee that recommended that a new Roosevelt library be built at 23rd Avenue South and 38th Street. Not only did this recommendation solve the problem of an antiquated, non-accessible building, but it placed a new building (with likely lower operating costs) within walking distance of more actual patrons.
Another issue with the current Roosevelt (in addition to the non-ADA compliant bathrooms) is that too many people believe it is a library only for Roosevelt school students--moving the library back into the school would only support that erroneous view. The advisory committee was made up of many neighborhood residents, including representatives from the library users, Standish Ericcson Neighborhood Association, the church next door to the current site, the adminstration of Roosevelt school, the city council (Sandy Colvin Roy and Gary Schiff attended meetings), the Library Board (represented by Rod Kruger), and me (as a member of the Friends of the Library). The Mayor's free to put up all the "trial balloons" he wants, and we welcome them in this forum. It's clear he doesn't like the recommendation of the Roosevelt advisory team, but the advisory team's process is clearly NOT an example of the different city agencies not working together. Currently, the plan is on hold as the Library administration re-evaluates its capital improvement plan. And by the way, I second Doug Mann's contention that the schools problem is not too much space but too few teachers. He provided more data than I could, so I'll leave it at that. Jim Berg Corcoran Neighborhood __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
