Westhampton residents who are steaming at rejection of their demands for an elected library board are also angry that the library plans to spend $1 million on a parking lot and $623K on interior redesign on six-year-old building.
The funds were committed at a previous board meeting. Also allocated were $147,905 for marketing and $150,000 for legal expenses. A total of $1.3 million has been set aside for “building expansion.” A donation of that amount came from the estate of Ann Skovek who died in 2013.
Cost of acquiring land for a parking lot was put at $1M. The site of a former gas station next to the library was cleared last year.
The air conditioning system is being replaced at a cost of $100,000.
Website Urges “No” Vote on Budget
The website of citizens who want an elected board to replace the current appointed board is urging citizens to vote “No” on the library budget May 17.
It asks, “Why does an appointed, insular, private club get to decide how to spend our tax dollars? Vote No on the library budget.”
The library subpoenaed a number of people to court on Monday and Tuesday this week. It concerned the Department of Human Rights case in which a library employee in December won "probable cause" to pursue her claim. She was then allowed to move forward and hire an attorney.
Citizen requests for the library to turn off the Wi-Fi system until its safety can be determined have been ignored.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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