Many reasons why yes is the right answer

Please vote Yes on the new library. It fits within the town’s economic plan and didn’t need an override vote to raise taxes. Bringing the existing library (which was built as a home 200-plus years ago) will cost as much or more than the new building and will not give extra space, parking, program areas for public use, or be energy efficient.

We have never built a library in Greenfield; this will be our first dedicated library.

A new library will bring more people to downtown businesses. A new library will support everyone from babies to seniors. We deserve this. A new library makes fiscal sense now and in the future. We will lose over $9 million in grant money (from taxes we paid to the state) that will go to another town if we pass it up. Building costs grow as time passes, so waiting to build will mean a more expensive project with no guarantee of grant funds.

There are no evil plots to manipulate you; the librarians are sadder than you about the elimination of programs. Libraries and librarians believe in providing access to high quality, accurate information. The current library building is falling apart and is a safety hazard.

Voting yes will not take money away from teachers; that is not how budgets work. Money is allocated separately for different purposes and a new library will not lead to teachers/instructional assistants losing their jobs or pay. I could go on and on. There are so many reasons why yes is the right answer. Please vote yes for the new library for all of us.

Jessica Pollock

Greenfield