12/11/2001 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Board of Library Trustees 12/11/01 Pace C. David distributed to the building committee some general library information, some material extracted from the feasibility study, ore of the engineering It reports . Helene has a copy of the arrant application. Some of that material will now be superfluous & Other material probably could, be cruite helpful . David 'stated that he had -printed up the mission statement of the Mashpee Public Library -which were also passed -around.' D. David explained. that Mashpee Town Meeting -has taken three votes relative to the library building committee; Maar :3, 19 . , . a vote was taken t , put $25 ,000 in the capital budget for the feasibility study. May 4 , 1999 , a vote was taken to put $120, 000 in the budget for architectural and engineering work for the library project.. May 4 , 1999. a vote was taken to establish the- .library building committee, This was also part of their- package. E,, David also wanted the building committee to know what a valuable person we have in our library director fox- a whole host of reasons, not Lea t -of which that Helene called and suggested that we' go back to the -Town and talk about population, the build-out, the mis r figures, etc . Figures that. we had to use from the Univer- sity of Mass . that determines (the State uses that) ghat your build-out will be, how much money they will give .you, -,what your program requirements are going to be. What David had were 1990 census figures . It was Helene' s suggestion, we were concerned that the riser projections of 23 , 370 , b .incr the build-out for - Mashpee in the year 201O. .mav be high, and the reason we may feel it high, when those figures were generated there was X amount of acres here in town loft to be bpi It . on; - it. will not be . 3.eveloped... Some of that land has been put into the land band. As, a result, the build-out will be lower. Helene explained that some of the most resistance the library had from the selectmen about the size of the building we were looking at was their feeling, that the Town' was. not going to be as l rge as the State says it was , and they may be correct. We need to have - that- documented. Therefore , we will need a couple Of people -to work on that to pull together that figure, how much land has- been, b ugh.t, how-much has been taken out of the housing market, so that we really know what size population we are looking at for build-,out because that greatly impacts what size bui ld-ing you -need. F. A clarification was given to Kevin Connolly relative to the comparative roles- of the board of library trustees and the Mashpee library building committee* David explained that the building committee was appointed by - the selectmen, and answered to the selectmen. The library trustees were more on a par with the selectmen.