The Board of Supervisors will make a decision this Tuesday whether to sign a 5 year lease with the Malik Family, new owners of the building on Copper Cove Drive where the library currently resides. The five year lease includes a rent increase for the first three years and an additional increase for the final two years.
The option before the board is to approve the lease and utilize contingency funds to cover the difference in the amount already budgeted for the Copperopolis library, or vote no and the Copper library may once again be looking for an affordable home.
Darren Spellman, previous Copperopolis Supervisor, expressed concern over the libraries future, stating that he was elected by Copper residents so still feels he has a duty to see to the needs of the residents and one of those needs is for library services. However, in his own district a library does not exist and a building has been offered for that use with a $0 lease amount. Yet there is no funding to open a library. In this situation he felt the decision to pay more rent for Copper while there exists a building for $0 rent yet no funds to man a library would be negligent for the children and community of Jenny Lind and Rancho Calaveras.
The Copper Gazette will follow this story.
Item #7 on the consent agenda.
Approve the execution of a five (5) year lease
between the County of Calaveras and Malik Family Enterprise, LLC. for library
space for the Copperopolis Branch Library, located at Suite D in the Copper
Cove Center, 90 Copper Cove Drive at $1,391/month for the first 3 years and
$1,530/month for the last 24 months and approve with a four fifths vote a
budget adjustment of $3,200 from contingencies to fund the increased cost of
rent for the FY 2013/14; Administration – Board action:
Update:
According to Supervisor Ponte the item is being pulled from the agenda pending further review.
