San Diego's Investigative Rag Quote:
...Encinitas deputy mayor James Bond, who was less than enthusiastic about the building of his community’s elegant new library, calling it a potential “dinosaur” and saying that “in ten years, nobody will be making a trip to the library. We will be looking at a PalmPilot or a computer at home.”Patch just ran a blurb on the library's killer coffee cart. You can drink your nice coffee, watch the sunset and check out the city hall roof from the million dollar patio.
Credit: Art and Enviro Politics Blog
The library was stamped environmentally friendly, just like everything else that is green-ganded these days.
Bond was before his time. Newport beach just opened a "library" with no books. Newport Beach more forward thinking than Encinitas?
Is reading bad for the environment?
The library also functions as a cool art house. Now on display are mosaics.
The library also functions as a cool art house. Now on display are mosaics.
Encinitas library, while egregiously expensive, is truly a work of art.
ReplyDeleteI will gladly live with slow fireman response times (no bandaids in the fireman's "emergency response kit"), bumpy roads, roundabouts, trains, slow lights, etc. in exchange for a nice library.
The town of Cerritos (near LA) spent $40 million on their library and it is a turd. You can't just throw money at something to make it great.
Amen, HH! And you can thank the Encinitas Library Committee of Sheila Cameron, Bob Bonde, Peder Norby, the late people: Ida Lou Coley, Lynn Love and yes Jack Orr for having the vision and tiger blood to situate our library where it is today. WINNING!
ReplyDeleteBut I still like 007 for being thrifty. I just think that of all the "improvements" Encinitas has made since incorporation, the library rivals only the downtown Streetscape.
The downtown streetscape is enviable.
ReplyDeleteI love our library. As HH said it is a work of art. Sitting outside, reading a book with a cup of coffee, watching the surf-it doesn't get much better than that, IMHO.
ReplyDeleteEven bigger, Bond never sold out your children s future by approving a 35% increase in all City Pensions and a 14% increase in 2005 like the sell outs Jerome Stocks and Houlihan.
ReplyDeleteMan- they must hate your kids.
Libraries have take on many roles these days. The Nixon library is as much a monument and museum.
ReplyDeleteThe LA Times just ran an article on the the new exhibits at that library that remind us that even those in the highest power can't be trusted to do the right thing when seeking to maintain personal power.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0401-watergate-nixon-20110401,0,7068701.story
The exhibit is titled dirty tricks.
More important that going back over the misdeeds is telling this part of the story.
That scheme, and many others hatched by Nixon, never happened, says Naftali, because people in the government said no, "people who received orders that they would not, could not implement.
"That is a story that must be remembered. That is something that we have to teach students and future members of our government," says Naftali, "that you can say no when you're asked to do something that is unconstitutional or illegal."
The mostly untold part of the story is the part of those who put doing the right thing ahead of their fear of being kicked out of the political crony club.