Vote no for
Cook Library
from Libertyville Review Letters to the editor 03/12/98
Libertyville/ Vote "no" on Cook Library Referendum. There is no question that the Libertyville Library District needs larger, expanded service library. But why must it be located in Vernon Hills? Vernon Hills just built a modern, 70,000 square foot library. Now the Cook Library Board wants to spend $19 million to erect a second facility, that's even bigger, just a few miles north in Vernon Hills. Libertyville, with far more residents, will remain with a reduced services, 32,000 square foot subsidiary branch.
The Libertyville Village Board of Trustees strongly opposes the plan, and has offered to work with the Library Board to keep the main library in Libertyville. Yet, the Library Board remains intransigent, and has placed the matter on the March 17 ballot for our approval. Unless we all go to the polls and vote "no," the Library Board will raise our taxes 60 percent, and quickly begin construction on the Vernon Hills site.
Voting 'no" to the proposition, is the only way to tell the Library Board we don't agree with their plan, that is a waste of tax dollars.
Bernard Pilchen