Why dissolve a successful board?
If Citizens Library, the Chartiers Township Board of Supervisors and Chartiers-Houston School Board were sincerely concerned with the survival of the Chartiers-Houston Community Library, why did they never once, either individually or as a group, sit down and meet with the library board to discuss their concerns and issues? Instead, they conspired together and arbitrarily moved in and dissolved the board.
Why would you dissolve a successful board that had just returned financial stability to the library, started rewriting job descriptions, acquired four new members, was investigating possible fundraisers, elected new officers, hired a business manager and had started a search for a new library director?
These conspirators now claim they are putting together a “transition team” consisting of three people. Why don’t they do their job and appoint seven new citizens to serve on a new library board? It is obvious that the survival of this library is not their priority. After all, who profits when these groups officially close the library? Follow the money to Citizens Library, which will now acquire all state and regional money that would have gone to the Chartiers-Houston library. Also, the Chartiers-Houston School District, already in dire financial straits, would now be free to sell the library building and its contents, and the supervisors would no longer have to concern themselves with the library or its financial support.
Barry N. Wood
Houston