FACT: With 13,000 Carmel-by-the-Sea residents and surrounding Monterey County area residents cardholders of the Library, nearly 100% of all Carmelites use Harrison Memorial Library and the Park Branch.
FACT: The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea proposes to expend $853,929 (7% of the total Fiscal Year 2006/07 Budget) for personnel and facility maintenance at the Harrison Memorial Library and Park Branch.
FACT: Harrison Memorial Library Hours---Adult Services---Open Hours of 40 Hours/Week
Monday-----1 P.M.---5 P.M.
Tues-Wed--11 A.M.---8 P.M.
Thurs-Fri-11 A.M.---6 P.M.
Saturday---1 P.M.---5 P.M.
Sunday----Closed
FACT: Park Branch Hours---Youth Services---Open Hours of 28 Hours/Week
Tues---------------------1 P.M.-8 P.M.
Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.—--11 A.M.-6 P.M.
Sat.-Sun.------------Closed
FACT: Carmel-by-the-Sea residents purchase 14% of all the tickets sold to Sunset Center events. (Source: Sunset Cultural Center, Inc.)
FACT: The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea expended $867,000 (Fiscal Year 2004/05), $772,000 (Fiscal Year 2005/06) and proposes to expend $713,000 (Fiscal Year 2006/07) to Sunset Cultural Center, Inc. (SCC) to subsidize its management of the Sunset Center.
Conclusion:
For approximately the same City expenditure amounts, significantly more Carmelites use Harrison Memorial Library and Park Branch than attend performances at the Sunset Center. Consequently, the City Council should budget significantly more money for Carmel-by-the-Sea’s two libraries than the proposed $853,929 for Fiscal Year 2006/07.
2 comments:
Obviously residents are getting the shaft from the council. Two Stanford graduates. One Annapolis graduate. Not three votes for more library funding and more hours for young, old and everyone in between.
Schedule a council retreat on the Andrew Carnegie Library legacy ASAP. Let there be Light, his motto is never more appropriate than now.
Yea for all the library supporters, especially all those who spoke and speak at the budget meetings. Will they ever listen. Hope springs eternal.
I was struck by the Library Boardwoman who spoke about 35% of the library circulation is due to children. And they turn their backs on children and close the children's library weekends when grandparents are here to spend quality time with our grandsons and granddaughters. What a shame. What a lack of investment in our future.
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