EDITOR: Please hold your applause until all of the results are
in. I cannot believe that the entire city of Morgan Hill and its
population were given such short shrift by the City Council this
past Wednesday night with its vote for the Civic Center location
for the new public library.
EDITOR:
Please hold your applause until all of the results are in.
I cannot believe that the entire city of Morgan Hill and its population were given such short shrift by the City Council this past Wednesday night with its vote for the Civic Center location for the new public library. This City Council played to its audience, reveling in applause and mingling after the vote was in.
The council was swayed by the noise from a few (no matter how they characterize themselves, they are only a few) and the revelation that they acquired moe than 1,000 signatures (likely secured with false information such as was distributed by some in the group at the meeting that “costs could soar for the downtown library by $34 million”). The council caved, saying that the library would be the “same in either location,” so let’s not cause a ruckus and just go with it.
I am disappointed that the council could call the situations “the same.” The $14.7 million invested in the downtown would certainly not be “the same.” I am disappointed that a unanimous vote for the downtown location, postponed one month earlier because of a vacationing council member, could become a vote 180 degrees opposite one month later.
I am disappointed that the council could not give the time to clear up the misinformation that was out there, for which it apologized but offered no solution. I am disappointed in myself and others for not making more “noise,” for not gathering signatures, for not lobbying for the downtown site and for believing that most of the council would stand up and do what was right for all of Morgan Hill.
Well, maybe they will let the next $15 million project into the downtown. When might that opportunity next arise?
Jerry Di Salvo, Morgan Hill
