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Not Who Wins but What's Wrong and What's Right
To the Editor:
We were shocked and disappointed to read the advertisement placed in your paper last week by the Philipstown Town Board about the on-going dispute with the Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library. The Town Board did not even have the courtesy to present us with their purported compromise before it was published.
This isn't a contest of who wins and who loses; it's a question of what's wrong and what's right. It's wrong for the Philipstown Board to withhold funding from the library after a lawful vote of its townspeople. It's wrong for the Philipstown Board to withhold funding from the library after the Supreme Court of the State of New York has twice ordered it to give the library that funding. Its right for the members of the library board to pursue this funding which was granted to the library in a certified and uncontested election.
The bottom line here is that the members of the Library Board pursued an avenue, made possible by the Legislature of the State of New York, in order to establish a stable funding base for the Library. The townspeople approved this funding in a lawful election and your elected officials are ignoring the will of the voters of Philipstown. Also, despite publicly stating on May 9 that the Town would abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, Supervisor Mazucca has now authorized the Town attorney to challenge those decisions on appeal.
We will continue to assert the rights of the Town voters and their Library as is our responsibility as trustees of the Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library.
The Board of Trustees Julia
L. Butterfield Memorial
Library
Judy Meyer, President Mike Riner, Vice-President
Gail Watson, Treasurer Candy Zgolinski, Secretary
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