Library Officials Seek Tax Funds for New Building
Shorewood-Troy Library Director Jennie Cisna Mills will continue to meet with residents in a bid to answer their questions on Saturdays leading up to the April 9 election.
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More than 80,000 people use the Shorewood-Troy Library each year, according to a Sun-Times News Group report, and while the community has grown since the library district was established 35 years ago, the building has not.
Nor has the percentage of taxes collected from village residents changed in the last three decades, according to the report.
And now library officials are asking residents to support a tax increase to build a new $21 million library. How much will this cost you?
If the referendum passes on April 9, the average Shorewood-area homeowner would pay between $19-$26 more a month, according to the Sun-Times News Group report.
“You’re buying a book,” library director Jennie Cisna Mills stated in the report. “That’s what you’re doing.”
Mills will continue to meet with residents on Saturday morning's in the library's lobby each week leading up to the election. More information is available on the library's website.
anonymous
8:54 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Why do I get the feeling that-like everything else the govt says-the amount they will screw us with on taxes is grossly underestimated. Sounds like they are losing control of the message and the word is getting out about another example of govt thievery through taxation. Why not convert one of our TWO shiny new firehouses into a library?Get the word out to your neighbors-VOTE NO!
nora
9:02 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Obviously Miss Jennie cares more about appearances and shiny new buildings than how many people in Shorewood are going thru foreclosure's and have lost their jobs. Look around the empty fields next to the ridiculous village hall building. Bet she doesn't even live in Shorewood. The people will vote NO every year she trys to bring this up again.
Infamous Steve
9:00 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
$19-$26 a month? That's only a book? Well I think that is a book I can do without...or I should say one MORE thing I can do without. I swear these morons up at the library need their heads shaken until they get some sense. Rent out some empty space at the Taj, that should bring in some money. You need to quit trying to be like Naperville and trying to make this a village it isn't. I bet if you went to Jewel or some other store and did a random survey of residents either they wouldn't know anything about it or 8 out of 10 would be against it. VOTE NO EVERYONE!!!!
Darla Boyle
9:29 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
80,000 people used the library last year. Was that an unduplicated head count or a duplicated head count? How many different people used the library during the year. Isn't this figure slightly exaggerated?????
M&M
10:44 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Darla, my thoughts exactly. I would have to assume these are a lot of the same people being counted again and again etc...
k m l
5:10 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Oh and how many people who use the library are NOT from Shorewood? How many people NOT from Shorewood would get a benefit WITHOUT the $25.00 a month additional tax?
k m l
5:10 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
I say NAY.
M&M
10:55 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
As far as $19.00 per month, that is $228.00 per year, plus add on what your paying now, close guess $80.00, you now would be paying approximately $308.00 per yr. As far as $26.00 per month, that's $312.00 per yr, added to what you are paying now, another close guess $ 100.00, your new library bill would be approx. $408.00. Put me down as a NO vote. I have better things to spend that money on.
west sider
10:59 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The library is an important part of every community but I don't feel this is the right time for expansion. You can use and borrow books from any library as long as you have a card.
anonymous
1:23 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Why not spend an extra buck or two in gas and drive to Joliet Black Road library?
Larry-in-Shorewood
6:29 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I wonder how many of those 80,000 annual users use it like my wife does -- just uses it as a pick-up location for new books she reserves.
Sadie
10:46 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
Vote 'NO' for a tax increase to build a bigger library that we do not need. Think 'green' and start using your digital e-readers. I can not afford a $300 per year tax increase. I just moved to Shorewood from Bolingbrook and Bolingbrook made the same mistake with building a bigger library. I left Bolingbrook to escape my high taxes. If this passes I need to think about moving again.