IT is excellent news that Cr White is having a change of heart and recognises that the Milton Library is a social hub of the community.
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If she had been prepared to listen to us earlier all the stress and worry she has caused the community would not have happened.
For the first time since this issue was raised residents are starting to think there is a chance of keeping Milton Library open.
Together as a united group we need to convince just one more councillor of the value Milton Library brings to the social fabric of our community to save this most important facility.
I would plead with those who wish to keep Milton Library open to continue emailing all of the Shoalhaven City councillors seeking their support on this matter.
This is the eleventh hour and we need to remain vigilant because if the library is closed the service will be gone forever and along with it part of Milton’s identity.
The use of statistics to compare Milton Library with Ulladulla Library is like comparing apples with elephants, it is nonsense.
How could these two facilities possibly be compared?
This debate is not about which library has the most members or lends the most books.
This debate is about the council focusing on its core business and providing the services the community expects from those in charge of spending their rates money.
The majority of Milton residents and many from the wider community want Milton Library to remain opened with increased and expanded services.
It is regrettable the community has been put through the stress and anxiety of having to fight for this essential service and if only some of the Ward 3 councillors had seen the light earlier instead of being Nowra- centric this would never have happened.
It is due to people power that the councillors have been forced to back off and start to reconsider their position on this issue.
Alison Pakes has done an exemplary job galvanising the community and now it is up to us to take the fight right up to the councillors who otherwise would not have listened.
When this debate is over I would like to be able to say, “We the community did it together.”
Cr Mark Kitchener,
Kings Point