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‘Were also facing the situation where we’re going to need a building,” Mr. Gilkey noted. The deal calls for the library being able to lease back the building for $1 per year for two years, he explained. “Perhaps they could extend the lease at fair market value afterward,” he added.
“The town doesn’t use the old Town Hall,” Mr. Massie noted. “As long as we let them use the courthouse, I don’t think they would put the library out in the street in the rain.” Mr. Anderson pointed out that the proposed purchase of the Town Hall in another year doesn’t take care of the immediate need for more office space in six months’ time. Local attorney Douglas Baumgardner has informed Mr. McCarthy and the Board of Supervisors that he will need back space that he has been renting to Mr. McCarthy and the building inspector.
“If we hadn’t done away with the old smokehouse and chicken house at the jail, we wouldn’t have this problem,” Mr. McCarthy mused, getting chuckles from the audience.
Mr. Massie commented that the public hearing had shown that people wanted to support the Golden Key theater group. “I’d like to see them use the building until we have a need for it.”
He added, “We always havaix) look at alternatives. We may have to look to moving offices and services out of town and into the county.”
Mr. Luke asked if the supervisors only wanted to have covenants restricting future uses of the library to keeping it in public hands or if they also wanted to restrict changes to the exterior of the building.
“At the public hearing people said they didn’t want to see the inside or the outside changed,” Mr. Massie said.
“My feeling is to just see that it not go out of public hands,” Mr. Gil
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