Coolidge Library Will be Open All Summer (on Sundays)
Brookline Board of Library Trustees voted to take the money given them at Town Meeting, and keep the library open for the full summer of Sundays.
The Brookline Library is taking the money and running (with a full summer of Sundays at Coolidge Corner). Brookline's Board of Library Trustees voted unanimously to take the $8,000 granted them by Town Meeting and use it to keep the library open on Sundays for the full summer. Library Trustee Michael Burstein (and Patch columnist) tweeted about the decision at the meeting on Tuesday night. The idea has been popular among the town's Jewish community, some of whom have not been able to use the libraries on Saturdays because of Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Throughout discussion of summer Sundays, the Library Trustees have insisted that they will staff the Coolidge Corner library only with library employees who have volunteered for the task…
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Grahame Turner
11:30 am on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
My understanding of the situation is that the Trustees originally requested the $15k in February, but the concern was the town's financial future. When they returned in April, the Selectmen were willing to give the $7,000 to the Board, and the Board was willing to take it. I believe they used the word "compromise" at the time. Town Meeting, however, disagreed with the Selectmen, and voted for the… more ›