SALISBURY – County officials this week voted unanimously to fund the purchase of a Parsonsburg property for the relocation of a library branch.
On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council voted to amend the fiscal year 2023 budget and fiscal years 2023-2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) to approve funding for the relocation of the current Pittsville branch. Officials say the funding transfer will allow the Wicomico Public Library to purchase a 2,670-square-foot commercial facility in Parsonsburg, which will be converted to a new branch location.
“I want to commend the library board and the director for the work they’ve done …,” said Councilman Joe Holloway. “I know they’ve been looking for property on the east side, and I think this is a good choice and I hope it works out. People on the east side have been looking for expanded library services for a long time.”
Since 1999, Wicomico Public Library’s Pittsville branch has operated from a 1,200-square-foot double-wide trailer located in front of Pittsville Elementary and Middle School. Earlier this year, however, the county council voted unanimously to adopt a CIP that included $37,500 in fiscal year 2023 and $375,000 in fiscal year 2024 for a new library.
In his request to the county council this week, Library Executive Director Seth Hershberger asked for the $375,000 to be placed in the current year’s budget.
Why is the county funding a project in a place where no one lives and certainly no one reads…these far off rural hamlets are literally empty spaces with a few boomers…we should put MY TAX MONEY where it belongs….in the places where people actually live and work…..
Seriously, who needs our uses a library anymore?
WAIST of More $$$$ by Your Lovely Democrat Party !!!!!!!! Not NEEDED
No doubt Bike Lanes will go all around it with a Turn-about in the middle !!!! LOL LOL
The library needs to stay in Pittsville PERIOD!!!!
come on call it what it is, another drag show center for flakey jakey’s pals!
There are properties available in the town of Pittsville to build a library with plenty of room for expansion. Pittsville has water, sewer, trash pick-up, and a police presence. Pittsville also has a school and it makes more sense to have the new library facility in an incorporated town. Parsonsburg offers none of these. Even the Wicomico County Director stated that Pittsville was the better choice. The previous Director was on board with the new library being in Pittsville and knew there was grant money for the purchase of property in Pittsville. The question remains “why Parsonsburg” -obviously not the best choice of locations. Is it still “good ole boys politics”?????