Jones Library’s Heavy Reliance On Town Funds Is Break From Tradition
Trustee and Director Call Repairs-Only Option For Building Project ‘Fiscally Irresponsible’Last week’s meeting of the...
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Deferred Maintenance Strikes Again As Leaks Force Jones Library Closure
Records Show No Planned Investment In Library Upkeep Since 2014 On Monday, July 31, visitors...
Despite Fundraising Gains, Trustees Accept Uncertainty Of Library Expansion
Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of May 15, 2023 Government Grants Leave Building...
FY24 Capital Improvement Plan Continues To Ignore Jones Library Maintenance
Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of May 8, 2023 Capital Improvement Program Assumes...
Library Trustees Seek Plan B Clarity. Details Of $1M Federal Grant Award Emerge
Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of April 24, 2023 Application Describes $1M Matching...
Cash-strapped Library Project To Get New Cost Estimate As Bills Keep On Coming
Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of April 10, 2023 Size of Current Budget...
Library Fundraisers Oppose Using Reserves To Lower Tax Increase
Capital Campaign Head Kent Faerber Decries Town’s ‘Undisciplined Spending’On April 3 the Town Council and...
Letter: Looming Library Costs Endanger School Override Vote
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Town Council on March 28, 2023. I...
Library Relocation May Force Early Town Council Vote On Funding
Alternative Repair Plan Emerges Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of March 20, 2023...
Opinion: When We Talk About Austerity In Amherst, The Jones Library Expansion Project Is The Elephant The Room
The Jones Library expansion project casts a shadow over every major fiscal decision that is...
Library Leaders Disagree On Aiding Schools, Viability Of Building Project
Jones Library News Highlights For The Week Of March 13, 2023 Conflicting Views Color Budget...
Letter: The Point Of Financial Models Is To Answer “What If” Questions. That’s Not What We’re Getting
Finance Director Sean Mangano’s modeling of the town’s “four major capital projects” has been presented multiple...