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LIBRARY SITE PLANNING COMMITTEE
In the summer of 2004, a task force was established by the Board of Selectmen to recommend a site for a new library. The members were Richard Cheek, Vera Dreyer, Jennifer Mugar Flaherty, Michael Flamang, Martha Gallagher, Marcie Schorr Hirsch, Mary Ann Johnson and Michael Speidel.
The Committee returned with a very interesting plan. The proposal would have reconfigured the L-shaped Town-owned site containing the existing library and Underwood Pool so as to accommodate a new library of up to 50,000 square feet and a new pool, along with approximately 100 shared parking spaces; “daylighted” a portion of the Wellington Brook currently contained in a box culvert running through the site; and improved area storm water drainage and traffic circulation.
Despite the Selectmen’s approval of the plan, the Library Trustees and Recreation Commission subsequently decided to go separate ways on projects within their respective sites. Since that time, the Library Trustees have completed a feasibility study, have obtained the endorsement of the 2005 Annual Town Meeting to apply for a matching state library construction grant, and have secured this state grant for a new library on their current site.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael J. Speidel & Vera Dreyer, Co-Chairmen
Lee Barber, Richard Cheek, Jennifer Mugar Flaherty, Michael Flamang, Martha Gallagher, Marcie Shorr Hirsch, and Lydia Phippen Ogilby
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