It seems that the “NO” signs for a new library are misleading in two ways.
The cost to the town of the new library is not $23.7 million dollars, rather it is $12.4 million dollars; this is secondary to an $11.3 million dollar grant from the state. The next potential opportunity for such state assistance will not be for another 20-30 years, at which time the property will no longer be available and construction costs may have doubled. Is that what we want to leave our children and grandchildren, a debt more daunting than imaginable?
Please consider a “YES” vote on June 24. Your children and grandchildren are counting on you.
Mary Kay Mattiace
Turners Falls