On Friday, August 12th, the Rochester Post Bulletin Editorial Staff had an excellent article in their paper concerning the Kasson Historic Elementary School and replacing it with a single story 20,000 square foot library. If you haven’t read this article please look it up and digest its contents. What happened at the Kasson City Council meeting last Wednesday evening is only preliminary and we as taxpayers still have a voice in the final decision. As stated in the Post Bulletin editorial, “in 2006 voters rejected a 3.9 million proposal to turn the old school into a library, but we don’t know if that opposition indicated voter’s desire to demolish the building or their reluctance to raise their own taxes”. The question at hand now is how much money should we invest into a brick and mortar library at a time when technology is dramatically altering people’s reading habits.
Again, let me quote the editorial article, “don’t demolish the old school until a firm decision has been made-and funding obtained for whatever structure will replace it”.
KARE is open to your comments and questions.
Lorraine Spading
KARE, Vice President
To the KARE members,
ReplyDeleteYou have put up a good fight. But, the community has a whole has place an educated vote and made a choice to put up a new building. It is not a matter of historical value but a matter of taking into account the right to vote that ever American has. It has been voted on and it is a done matter.
To forget the past is to repeat those mistakes in the future. To dwell in the past is to have no future.