To follow up: Chris Johnson says: "You have an awfully strange and uncommon definition of "dismisses" when you claim Mayor Rybak dismissed the citizen committee."
Reply: As a member of the committee, I admit to being touchy on this issue, and I feel dismissed when the mayor says "But in many cases we continue to make decisions independently of each other and in the process suck up more operating expenses.... Example: A library sits across the street from Rosevelt [sic] School but when there were conversations to build a new one, the choice was to move it further away, instead of across the street into the school where both students AND the community could use it....and staffing could be shared." Read it the way you want to, but I call that dismissive. The decisions were not made independently of each other, as he claims. In addition, the committee discussed many options, including the school connection, with all of the partners at the table. (The school rep insisted they couldn't afford to staff or maintain the library in their own building.) The committee determined that the new location would be more cost efficient (making Roosevelt ADA compliant would be a huge expense) and serve more people. Sean Ryan asks: "Speaking of the Roosevelt Library, what is the status of the so called 'mixed use' developement." Reply: it's all on hold, and I believe will be reconsidered sometime this year as the library system does it's capital planning. The mixed-use issue gets a lot of discussion but it is separate from whether there should be a new building in a new location. Jim Berg Corcoran Neighborhood __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools 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
