{"id":17418,"date":"2015-10-15T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:49:56","slug":"letter-new-group-needed-if-there-is-to-be-new-kennett-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17418","title":{"rendered":"Letter: New group needed if there is to be new Kennett library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Letters1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1200572\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" \/><\/a>The Kennett Public Library hired Mcintyre Associates to conduct a campaign planning\u00a0feasibility study for their proposed new library. The KPL essentially provided\u00a023 carefully crafted questions for which they sought answers. They provided\u00a0Mcintyre Associates with a list of 98 individuals to be interviewed, but only 41\u00a0(40.2%) chose to participate. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT RESULT FOR THE\u00a0STUDY. I have read the entire study as released by the library board that included\u00a0significant redactions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mcintyre Associates conducted the study and concluded;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(1) There was not a positive outlook for individual financial support at this time;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(2) F<span class=\"s1\">ew <\/span>individuals would provide major support as long as current leadership\u00a0remained in place;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(3) $6 million dollars are not available for a capital campaign at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Bayard Taylor Memorial Library has been in a slow decline for over half a century. Two decades\u00a0ago when the library identified the need for a new facility, the decline has drastically\u00a0increased. I do not believe the current library board is capable of providing new\u00a0facilities to our communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I would propose that a new committee free from the library board be\u00a0established to plan and provide a new facility in Kennett Square with adequate\u00a0parking. This committee would be composed of individuals from the true service\u00a0area of the Kennett Public Library probably appointed by their respective Board of Supervisors. This\u00a0committee would conduct open public meetings probably monthly around the true\u00a0service area to allow for public input. Minutes would be made available to the\u00a0public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With this approach 1 believe our communities could have new, expandable\u00a0public library in three to four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bruce B. Yelton,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pocopson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, The Kennett Public Library hired Mcintyre Associates to conduct a campaign planning\u00a0feasibility study for their proposed new library. The KPL essentially provided\u00a023 carefully crafted questions for which they sought answers. They provided\u00a0Mcintyre Associates with a list of 98 individuals to be interviewed, but only 41\u00a0(40.2%) chose to participate. THIS IS A VERY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2734,6158],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bayard-taylor-memorial-library","tag-kennett-public-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}