GOING FORWARD LET’S REPLACE LOVE FULLERTON DAY WITH FULLERTONIANS WHO LOVE LEARNING AND READING DAY, STARTING WITH A FIRM COMMITTMENT TO REOPEN OUR HUNT BRANCH LIBRARY. By Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
I have reviewed what activities were accomplished at prior Love Fullerton Days and most of the efforts were to help the city government do its job, such as cleanups in our parks, washing Police vehicles, etc. I commend those who join with city employees to make our city a little cleaner and little more beautiful, etc.
However, instead of doing things that at best have a very short useful life, I suggest we do something that could change the lives of many Fullerton residents forever. What better thing to do than to help educate and motivate our children and adults? That is what we could accomplish by reopening our Hunts Branch Library. Instead of washing a police vehicle, we get a hundred or more volunteers to paint, clean up, repair as well as create a reserve to help meet some of the costs to have a grand reopening of our Hunts Branch Library. It is always nice to do something that makes us feel good. How about we help to make reopening the Hunts Branch Library a reality, which will do much good for so many members of our Fullerton community.
The library is off limits to the public as it is currently being rented by a church with a different mission than one would expect
I love the Hunt Branch Library. But more importantly, I love the positive impact that library would have on the members of my community being inspired, educated and motivated by the books and the future programs in our newly reopened Hunt Branch Library.
All of Us Remember the Slogan, “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste”. So let us all agree that the Hunt Branch Library is a community resource that should never be wasted or discarded.
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I ask that the Fullerton City Council join with me to make reopening the Hunt Branch Library a reality for our community.
The City of Fullerton’s official website (see below) states that the Hunt Branch Library is “temporarily closed”. It has been approximately 3 years since this temporary closure has taken place with no date certain of when it will be reopened or if it will ever be reopened. Please let the Fullerton City Council and Fullerton City Manager that you demand that the city reopen one of the communities treasures, The Hunt Branch Library.
201 S. Basque Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92833
The Hunt Branch is Temporarily Closed. Questions? Concerns? Please contact Library for additional information call 714-738-6388.
#1 by FPOA - For Protecting Our Affluence on May 6, 2016 - 10:56 pm
Show me anyone in the private sector who received a 6% raise this year RI?
Show me anyone in the private sector let alone an entire class of workers who can retire as early as age 50 with 90% of their pay and free medical care for life RI?
Show me why the cops and firemen deserve millions in yearly raises, while the city claims poverty for our roads, sewers, sidewalks and for our libraries?
What all the above shows me that police and fire unions along with RI do not give a darn about the public they are supposed to serve and protect. In fact it proves that the only thing they care to serve and protect is themselves.
#2 by Reality Is..... on May 7, 2016 - 9:37 am
I said show me the last 10 years. If it comes out to less than 1% a year, does that change your opinion? Probably why I can’t get that answer from Barry or Joe.
Cops and firemen and other city employees, including teachers, deserve the pay and benefits they get. I’ll leave it at that. You hate it, I like it. More like it, that’s why all of California gets it.
Sure the unions care. They also care about the pay and benefits for their members. Isn’t that what the union is there for? Isn’t that what POBAR is there for to protect their members from political scum that would fire them on the spot for looking at them wrong?
So yes. You are partially right and partially wrong. You are jealous. By they way, most retirement programs have changed over the years so it’s not as easy as retiring at 50 with 90%, and it never really was. But go ahead and say it like that, because when you do it falls into that same question of facts of what is the pay and benefits increases over the last 10 years for Fullerton Police and Fire? I won’t ever get that because it will show that the recent raise was way overdue and deserving.
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