Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Good News GA -The Current Events Thread

Good News
Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah, GA
. -A new state of the art, eco-friendly library has been built. LEED certified, it comes equipped with lights on sensors that will turn off if there is no activity in that particular area. The bathrooms use low-flow water fixtures and even the carpets and paint are environmentally friendly.
The two story building offers a 200 occupancy auditorium, a classroom, a puppet stage, an area to serve the blind and physically handicapped, and --a teen room?

Or Is It?
This generous, new building cost over $15M and is still looking for funds to hire a staff. Because they don't have the sufficient funds to hire a new staff, they are closing Oglethorpe Mall a few hours or days a week, and are cutting the open hours of both The Savannah Bull St. Library and this new library from an original 70 hours a week to 30 hours.
So what will happen to the people whom you would normally see at The Savannah Bull St. Library sitting at the computers, desperately searching for jobs?
And the original staff at The Savannah Bull St. Library whose hours will be cut back?
Would it have been better to just improve on the already generous Bull St. Library?


Though the new library will cost the old library staff hourly wages, and library users hourly use; the new library will attract people from a different part of town. Now job searchers in Southside Savannah will have somewhere to go when in need of the generous resources the new library is supplying.
So congratulations, to the new Oglethorpe Mall Library!

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