Another CL Library Meeting Thursday Night

For residents of Crystal Lake and those outside willing to pay the same proportional amount in fees that Crystal Lakers pay in taxes for library services, a meeting is being held Thursday night to consider the institution’s future.

Below is the email that was sent out:

We hope you will attend a very important and the final FOCUS Community Engagement Session this Thursday, June 9th.

What About the Money?” is the topic and we want you to provide critical input on the needs and wants that will guide the future of our library.

Inside the Crystal Lake Library.

Inside the Crystal Lake Library.

Please invite your friends and neighbors to join you at this important meeting at 7:00 pm in Park Place at 406 Woodstock Street.

Visit the FOCUS website for more information and to register http://focus.clpl.org/

We would also really appreciate it if you would share a post from our Facebook Page onto your Facebook Timeline.  Click this link to view the Facebook post to share. See further instructions below:
https://www.facebook.com/CLPLToday/photos/a.186638048019441.53755.173369266012986/1352172638132637/

Hopefully, you will find this pretty straight forward. Start by clicking the link above. You’ll be asked to log into Facebook if you’re not already. Click “Share” under the post, then click the “Share Link” button to post it on your Timeline. If you wish, you can also choose to share the link with Facebook Groups of which you are a member or on other Facebook Pages you administer. Simply start the process over and choose with whom you would like to Share the post at the top of the pop-up window that appears. That’s it.  This should take less than 3 minutes. Thank you for helping the children and families served by the Crystal Lake Public Library.

Thank you!

Loreen Keller, FOCUS Co-Chair
Robert Reisenbuechler, FOCUS Co-Chair
Kathryn I. Martens, Library Director


Comments

Another CL Library Meeting Thursday Night — 12 Comments

  1. There are towns in this country that have libraries that are not supported by taxes at all.

    A building is donated, internet, equipment, books are donated and volunteers run the library.

    They may not belong to some slick library lending service but the pay-off is obvious.

  2. CP,

    But how will that protect the cushy jobs with extraordinary retirement benefits for the librarians?

    Can’t you see that this is what this is all about?

    The librarians are pushing for the construction of a new building to create enough sunk costs to create job security for themselves.

  3. No government deserves a dime of extra taxpayer money until they begin clearly disclosing line item detail on a spreadsheet that includes rows for each employee and columns for each type of current employee compensation.

    And another spreadsheet including rows for each retired employee and columns for each type retired employee compensation.

    And another spreadsheet including the bond payment schedule with rows for each year and columns for Principal, Interest, and Total.

    And another document clearly explaining the pension liability and GASB 67 / GASB 68.

    And another spreadsheet about Retiree Healthcare Unfunded Liability.

    And other documents but that’s a start.

    Taxpayers have to demand accountability of how the money is being spent.

    Right now the data is buried and obscured so there’s no way for the average citizen to understand how the money is being spent.

    Even experts have a difficult time understanding how the money is being spent for any particular unit of government, much less all the governments to which they pay taxes.

    The result is mountains of debt and IOUs, and ever higher taxes.

  4. Another service sacred cow made obsolete by technology.

    But it’s for “the children”, just like those threw the roof costs, for those free day care centers called schools.

  5. Wow. I am so happy that I still have a bright outlook about my community, my family, and those who help keep us safe, educated, and healthy.

    Too many folks see everybody else as the cause for their unhappiness.

  6. It is incredibly damaging to sustainable government and taxes to be a clueless happy lemming.

    There are mountains of evidence that what has occurred was obscured.

    The younger you are, the more you should worry, irregardless of your political viewpoints.

    Don’t be happy with kick the can, hide and seek, catch me if you can politics.

    Be angry.

    It’s unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

  7. Great Tom.

    But in between verses of ‘Teach the World to Sing’, break out that checkbook and pay for that “bright outlook” yourself.

  8. There are obviously some awesome employees in the dysfunctional system.

    The insinuation that if taxpayers don’t agree to all the hide and seek, kick the can, catch me if you can behavior that occurred, then taxpayer don’t appreciate public sector workers, has worn out its welcome.

    It’s manipulative.

    If people are tricked it should be expected that some will be angry especially when it hits their pocket book.

    Plenty of people were duped public and private sector.

    The system is broke and broken.

  9. No matter how many times they have been told NO MO MONEY they just don’t get it and yet they are running a tax payers library, where are the brains ?

    my god !

    if you can’t understand No Means NO than just close up shop!

    your not helping anyone but your selfish self…

    more power trippers…

    oh I must have a status in this town…

    or no one will notice me…

    well we do as nothing but wasteful..

    enough is enough already..

  10. Is there a way to see who is getting paid due to work from a public system, including pensions being paid?

    i.e. two categories… present employees (paid from public salaries) and past employees (paid from public pensions)?

    I suspect that list would shock the general public.

  11. i see it now. thx Cal. the data therein is nearly unbelievable. this madness has to end.

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