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Georgetown librarys future is now in OMB hands The Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb 1978 B5 After a three day hearing on the spending of for a new library at Cedar vale Park Georgetown Ontario Municipal Board Members J A Charron reserved their decision Friday afternoon They heard the cost of the 16 square foot building at Cedarvale estimated at compared to the 14 square foot expanded existing building at Town solicitor Ray Steele argued the town could well afford the as Trea surer Ray King had testified the per capita debt in Hills Is the lowest In Region Alan Zee gen a consulting engineer testified repairs at the Church Street site would total and claimed there arc serious deficicnces in the floor structure He said a library must sustain a load of pounds per square foot and said the present floor is He said the roof needed repairs and there were deficiencies in fire safety requirements He said the mechanical system needed to be replaced Bert Arnold solicitor ap pearing for Betty Fisher and John Ferguson opposing the 000 expenditure at Cedar vale asked If reading rooms and washrooms demanded the ISO pound per square foot load capacity as did the stacks said the building code required that amount Arnold pointed out many of the Items in the report are Included in the plans for the addition to the building Recreation director Glen Gray testified he feels the pre sent complement of parkland is adequate for the George town area He said he has no objection to use of the land at Cedarvale torn library The only concern it ex pressed said Gray was parking and since that time those concerns have been eliminated Gray pointed out that the hill at Cedarvale presently used for tobogganing is a dangerous location for that He said children have slid into the mature tree growth at the bottom of the hill and that the town has had to put rubber tires around the bases of telephone poles to help eliminate Injuries Gray said that when the recreation department offices were located at he personally destroyed two or three toboggans trying to get up the hill with his car under wintry conditions The child had vacated the He said the North Golf Club encourages the spontaneous use of its natural rolling terrain for Under cross examination from Arnold Gray expressed the opinion that and the Fairgrounds are the only two parks in Georgetown which would fit the description of community parks Betsy Cornwell chief librarian for Hills testified that the present library on Church St been large enough since Georgetown passed in population She said the building has little more than square feet and that all available space except the fur nacc room is now being used It has no room for reading and so fewseating spaces that only 15 people could be modated in the building at one time She said the library is about a third to a quarter of the size it should be is below the seating It should have and has a book stock of one half or less of what it should be The children area is about half the average size and there are no program or meeting rooms she said Mrs Cornwell said the library board chose the Cedar vale site because they felt the town neededa new facility at a site which Is highly accessible to the community as a whole and where expansion Is possible She said the present library is located adjacent to one of the town major commercial strips but is not highly visible to thatstrip Questioned by board member J M Wheler Mrs said she was unhappy with provisions expansion plans for the present library allowed Expansion of the present building would have necess luted three levels with super vision on each level she said It would mean extra staffing and an unsuitable division of books Asked by if con of a new library would make any difference to DUCKS SPACE ON Fairy Lake is diminishing every day as ice crowds them into smaller and smaller area her personally as a pro fessional librarian Mrs Cornwell replied that provision of a new building would give the people of Georgetown and area fuller and more varied library service Mrs Cornwell said a building of 15 000 ft is a good target for the existing population but that ft would be required for centres in Acton and George- the town projected own and a small branch at population She said the school which is Georgetown library has over only open part time 11 In addition to a summary of Mrs Cornwell said that it town solicitor generally felt that if a town Ray Steele contended the has less than pop- should rule only on the it should not have allocation of money and ought library branches Hills not interfere with council and now has two main service library board s opinion about themerltsofasite Bert Arnold In his sum mation contended the building must comply with the zoning and open space designation since a library board is not a governing body He also maintained the debenture can only be used for another purpose If the OMB determines the original use Is no longer feasible Mm COOPER DAWS COST 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