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DEFEAT the Westhampton Free Library budget increase. VOTE NO. Please attend the Board Meeting Wednesday, May 11, at 7 pm at the Library.

In the November 18, 2015 meeting minutes on the Westhampton Free Library’s website the Board of appointed Trustees committed funds for specific capital projects.

Building expansion $1,300,000: This is the Ann Skovek donation.

Land Acquisition (for parking lot) $1,000,000: Your accumulated tax dollars.

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Interior Space Redesign $623,579: Your tax dollars, on a new building, not yet 6 years old.

HVAC replacement $100,000: Your tax dollars.

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The Board of appointed Trustees also committed $147,905 of funds to Marketing our non-profit Library, and $150,000 was committed to a Legal Fund.

We’d like to hear from various trustee candidates during an election what their ideas are for the future of the Library and how they would like to spend our large surplus of tax money. Why does an appointed, insular, private club get to decide how to spend our tax dollars?

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