Keeping the Lines of Communication Open in Poynette

Library, downtown committees on the way. (Poynette Press, 12/12/2011)

Excerpt: Citing a need to improve communication with the Poynette Library Board, village board members voted at Monday night's committee of the whole meeting to create a seven-person "liaison" committee to work with both boards on library expansion.

The village board and library boards would each provide three members, and the village plan commission would provide one.

"That's a pretty important piece of the downtown," said Poynette President Jerry Burke.

Trustee Andy Ross said the focus of the committee should be focused solely on communications between the boards on the expansion of the library, citing the need for both the library and village board to retain their respective responsibiliti

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The library as Poynette's anchor store.  (11/10/2011)
Poynette redevelopment project includes space for library.  (9/29/2011)

Poynette Library Board President Takes Village Board to Task for Poor Communication

Library board president wants communication with village. (Portage Daily Register, 11/23/2011)

Excerpt: One of the ideas broached, however, is for the village to sell a series of connected downtown buildings that it owns - including the present location of the library - to a developer, who would be the landlord for an expanded, relocated library. That proposal also entailed having the library pay monthly rent to the building's owner; the library now occupies, rent free, a building owned by the village.

Guild, asked whether any developers had expressed interest in acquiring the downtown property, said he was "not prepared to comment."

"The process," he said, "will take as long as it's meant to take."

Since the library has been proposed as the "anchor" tenant for downtown redevelopment, Garske said the village president - Jerry Burke, who was at Monday's meeting - should find a way to improve communication with Library Director Kris Daughterty and the members of the library board.

"I personally find fault with the village board for failure to timely and accurately communicate with the library board, its director and the taxpayers regarding all public information concerning or pertaining to this project since its inception," Garske said.

The library board has appointed a committee from among its members to communicate with village officials on the redevelopment issue.

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The Library as Poynette's Anchor Store

Library supporters speak. (Poynette Press, 11/8/2011)

Excerpt: Poynette village President Jerry Burke said the library is just part of the larger discussion about Main Street.

"The value (of the library) to the village is to create a magnet on Main Street," he said. "So that if there is a significant cost to us doing this, the value in it is, is what it generates on Main Street because we did it. The value isn't just the building, it's what it engenders, it's what it creates. And that value exceeds what you would spend on it."

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