SoHum, Check Out Your Reading Material Now: Garberville Library Likely to Close for Rebuilding in September
Garberville is going to have a new library building, according to Kay Sheldon, Manager of the Garberville branch of the Humboldt County Public Library system.
“They [the County] are going to tear the old building down and build a new one. This structure, from the 1980’s, was only meant to be temporary,” said Sheldon of the current library at 715 Cedar Street.
The County has yet to finalize and release the exact dates, but Sheldon says the target month for closure is this September with a re-opening at the same site in six months. “The new building will have us, the Sheriff and a conference room that the veterans can use,” stated Sheldon.
Southern Humboldt library patrons will be served during the closure by limited days from the County of Humboldt Bookmobile and one evening a week at the Department of Health and Human Services building at 727 Cedar Street. According to Sheldon, a final decision has yet to be made on the temporary location for the bookmobile but “we think in front of the Garberville Post Office.” The service days during the re-build from the bookmobile will be on the first, third and fourth Thursdays of the month as well as the second Saturday, according to Sheldon.
“The one evening a week [of library hours] at DHSS will be on Wednesday or Thursday, after they close,” she said. The hours during each of these days have yet to be finalized. “We’ll have more information out soon,” said Sheldon stating that the library wants to get this information out now so that residents are prepared.
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Well, it’s nice that something new will finally be built in GBV.
It will go well with your “new” 90 year old hospital…
That corner of GBV, with no parking, no egress to speak of, and it’s wonderful proximity to hippie hill, will make a very nice location for the access of the un-domiciled and the senior citizens alike…
See, Humboldt County will “save” Garberville, after all…
They have no known funds for any construction or building renovations
Really? = They aren’t rebuilding anything! The county will take away the old prefab unit that’s the library and replace it with a smaller one expected to serve more purposes. Southern Humboldt never does gets its fair share of the pie when the County is concerned. IMHO
I guess pot farmers should pay taxes. Hmmmmm?
From what it looks like, there’s a heavy duty budget to militarize almost every agency known to the county, state, TO PROTECT THE AGENDA SET OUT BY SACRAMENTO CORPORATE LOBBYISTS, not for the people.
Regional Planning?
And what if….
WHAT IF,
THEY USED THE FUNDS TO HELP THE PEOPLE…with much needed services, library, social services, day care, etc that is focused on non militarized action.
NOT HOW TO GOVERN BY WEAPONIZING the government agencies against the people.
Sounds like people want to farm, yet, just can’t pay exorbitant fees set by the multiple agencies, micro managing the literal ability for people to farm their own land.
IF…there wasn’t so much Bureaucratic red tape, maybe there would be more dollars available for programs to allow the mom and pop access to the right to farm.
THEN THERE MIGHT BE MORE MONEY FOR PROGRAMS FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR WEAPONS OF WAR.
BULLS HIT.
This is a war against the people by a government looking to expand its power and authority.
It’s so tough to see people arguing over who gets to control the flow, control the permits, control the enforcement, and why so much more money is spent attacking people instead of creating a path forward.
It might be a good idea to take an honest look at the people making these decisions and who they are being directed by.
Regional Planning.
The Santa Barbara article pointed out the relationship between Das Williams and the Sacramento based lobbyist, and we see much of the same language used down there, as we are seeing up here.
Who is making the decision’s at the state and local levels and why isn’t there more transparency for some accountability.
It’s almost as If, it’s a form of Jim Crow style discrimination ,or segregation based on a new kind of dividing line.
We have a long history of discrimination and controlled access by government, it’s just more sophisticated and nuanced.
These people involved have access to the brightest minds money can buy, most are PHD level intelligent, who have been coaxed into less than positive solution based thought processes that can lift humanity, not tighten the chains around every aspect of their over burdened, over taxed, and barred from entry, lives.
The order followers are chosen because they are willing to capitalize on the system, and have a belief system that they deserve to pick the winners, AND the losers, by blocking critical access to the marketplace.
This is a racket, always has been, always will be…
So until people start holding the elected officials accountable at every level, we will continue to suffer at the hands of cronyism and corruption which is systemic.
Forget Gun Control…
We need Representative Control.
Go to Rio Dell if you can. Nice library.
WHY CAN THE RIO DELL LIBRARY NOT BE OPEN 5 DAYS A WEEK (currently 3) WHILE GARBERVILLE IS CLOSED?
It would give librarians a few days employment, and library access for patrons
I agree, Rio Dell has a fine library. You can order any book you can think of and they’ll have it for you in a week, free mind you. Wish they could find the money to put Martha, the librarian, on full time. Good for her, good for the community.
Just have to point out that Rio Dell is an incorporated city, while Garberville and Redway are not. Incorporated cities raise their own funds and manage their own services. Unincorporated towns and surrounding areas can form community service districts under state law, but except for billable-by-use services such as water and wastewater, the only way to raise significant amounts of money to fund other public services such as libraries is by assessments — i.e., fixed additions to property taxes, like the Fire Protection Districts do. Few people are willing to pay for assessments for a library. (A lot of people object to assessments for fire protection, which seems really stupid to me, since your property isn’t worth nearly as much once it burns.)
A couple of times in the last decades there have been attempts to create some kind of incorporated city in SoHum, but it isn’t easy. It entails a long, strenuous, expensive, and controversial legal process. But at the incorporation meetings I attended, the problem also was that while people want self-government and many have very cool and progressive ideas about what to do once they are independent of the county, nobody really wants to do the work that governing entails. After all, how many local boards in SoHum have a tough time attracting people to serve on them?
~corporations are the problem, msknowitall.
Self-governance has NOTHING to do with the dead.
There goes SoHum’s only public wifi access.