HomeMy WebLinkAboutStudy Session - Public CommentFrom:Ellen Strenski
To:City Clerk
Subject:Capital improvements study meeting today
Date:Wednesday, May 4, 2022 7:57:16 AM
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Please give more money to the Library. It is so important right now, when libraries and
schools are threatened by censorship, to strengthen our Library. As Steven Rowley, best-
selling author of The G.U.N.C.L.E., explains, people with polarized fixed opinions about other
people, especially stigmatized minorities, only change their minds when they enter into these
other people’s lives through stories and can experience in their imaginations what it feels like
to be someone different. Libraries offer this experience.
Thank you,
Ellen Strenski
2190 South Sunshine Circle, Palm Springs 92264
5/4/2022
Public Comment
Study Session
From:Ed McBride
To:City Clerk
Cc:Jeannie Kays; Ed McBride
Subject:E-Public Comment-Monday’s City Council Study Session
Date:Friday, April 22, 2022 11:29:45 AM
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Honorable Mayor Middleton and City Council,
I am the current Chair of the Palm Springs Public Library Board of
Trustees and I wish to ask for your consideration and support for adding
a full-time Librarian-Archivist position to the Library budget. This position
will allow us to dedicate a full-time professional focused on preserving
our community history and collection for not just our current community
but for generations to come! We hope to add a community archive to
the new/renovated Main Library and this position will be critical in the
planning of that service and the new overall Library program. I hope we
can count on your support for this position, and we look forward to
working with the City on the New Main Library Project.
(I tried to use the form and it kept giving me error messages. Can you
confirm this was received and documented?)
Thank you!
Ed McBride
Chair
Palm Springs Public Library Board of Trustees
Ed.mcbride58@gmail.com
5/4/2022
Public Comment
Study Session
From:Steve Cole
To:Lisa Middleton; Grace Garner; Dennis Woods; Geoff Kors; Christy Holstege
Cc:City Clerk
Subject:flush with money/pension liabilities
Date:Thursday, April 28, 2022 11:20:48 AM
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Dear Councillors,
Regarding the Desert Sun article on the city being flush with money and planning aggressive
spending, I remembered another Desert Sun article from 2017 saying that retiree liabilities
were “a ticking time bomb”.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/editorials/2017/03/15/our-voice-retiree-costs-time-
bomb-still-ticking/99219538/?
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The 2017 article said the city had nothing set aside to cover these liabilities and was paying
retiree expenses “out of pocket”. I commented about this on Facebook wondering if the
problem was being addressed given our improved cash situation. And someone suggested
sending you an email… so here we are.
Since I don’t send a letter to the city council often, can I just throw out another thought which
is given the unprecedented water restrictions being implemented in other parts of SoCal, isn’t
it time to consider replacing the huge lawn in front of the airport with more appropriate
landscaping. Good desert landscaping is just as attractive. And that lawn, unlike our parks,
doesn’t get used for recreation.
Many thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Steve Cole
392 Sycamore Circle
(832) 726-6567
5/4/2022
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Study Session
From:Margaret Sirolly
To:City Clerk
Subject:Capital Improvements
Date:Wednesday, May 4, 2022 3:45:55 PM
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Please delegate more money to our Palm So
Springs Library. People young and old benefit and learn from all it has to offer in the way of books both on its
shelves and online, music, dvd’s, magazines, newspapers, lectures and more. It’s a house of treasure for the
community!
Sincerely,
Margaret Sirolly
2001 E Camino Parocela
#K80
Palm Springs, CA 92264
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5/4/2022
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