Library update

2000-12-04 Thread MnGus
--part1_b8.e9944dd.275da70b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a previous post I pointed out that the mayor had proposed cutting $8,000,000 from the Library's normal capital allocation over the next five years. Over the ten year library rem

Libraries, referendum, budget shortfall

2000-11-20 Thread MnGus
--part1_39.cc00758.274b06d3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In response to Lisa McDonald's post. >I asked our budget staff about the issue of both capital and the $2 million "structural deficit." I was told there will be no change in the li

Taxes, Mayor's budget and Library Referendum

2000-11-17 Thread MnGus
--part1_4f.3a847a7.27473ebf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whether you are a tax and spend liberal Democrat, a fiscal conservative Republican, a WWF supporting Independent (we don't have reform people in Minneapolis anymore do we)? or a

Re: Paying for the Library/Regional facilities but Minneapolis pays

2000-11-12 Thread MnGus
--part1_83.2c697f1.2740d55b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rt@rtrybak ended his comments on the library with: We shouldn't blow it by thinking small, or letting others off the hook. This has the potential to be one of the mos

Re: WhoRWe/was:bradys,mobys,subfright,etc

2000-11-11 Thread MnGus
--part1_fb.d9ad331.273f101d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In response to R.T.Rybaks thoughts about rural areas looking to Minneapolis, I just completed a construction job on the Minot Air Force base in North Dakota and can confirm what a

Re: Church and State?

2000-11-08 Thread MnGus
--part1_47.3362368.273b6ee9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I surely hope they were not giving the Augustana folks any cigarettes. Bob Gustafson 13th --part1_47.3362368.273b6ee9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-T

Library Referendum

2000-11-02 Thread MnGus
The Library has been running a tight budget during the nineties, that has led at times to hiring freezes and cutbacks to book purchases. The problem is that on top of this tight cash flow, the new capital program as presented to CLIC last spring and in their report "Outlook Twenty Ten" shows an