COUNCIL GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO LIBRARY COMMITTEE!

I would like to pass a motion for the council to accept the town owned Legion building to be used as the new location for the Hantsport Public Library due to the fact we, the town, have to vacate the present Hantsport Public Library location of Hantsport School by August 2015, at the latest conditional upon approval by Council of all building renovation plans and estimates.

Councillor Margot Bureau presented the above motion at the January Hantsport Town Council meeting. Deputy Mayor Harold Bulger, chair of the town's Library Committee, was absent. Both councillors are members of the committee. Mayor Rob Zwicker stated that the committee's document was weak and that council needed a proper study. Councillor Faye Hill agreed and saw only blanks and questions. CLLR Bureau stated that council's failure to pass the motion would result in delays when timing was strategic.  She assured council that the motion did not involve a commitment from council. Council passed the motion by a vote of 4:1. The mayor voted against it.

CLLR Bureau then made this second motion:

I would like to put another motion on the floor to create a steering committee to draw up final costs for the project and make presentations to, not only the Hantsport council, but to West Hants council, Kings County Council and Glooscap First Nation council, because of their citizens using this facility, where partnerships will be sought to aide Hantsport of soul responsibility for the costs of renovation and the move to the new location with Councilor Harold Bulger as Chair.

It passed unanimously. 

The next step is for the steering committee headed by CLLR Bulger to develop concrete costs for only the bare essential renovations. Costs for the so-called frills will be estimated later.