Tired of waiting for a library

Tired of waiting for a library

In Supervisor Schillo’s response to my letter of July 18, he promises that "the Ventura County Library District will try to place a portable library structure or bookmobile at the high school until the library is completed."

Well, school has started and there isn’t a portable structure or a bookmobile. And from what I am told at the school there will not be one.

Our children are without a library, which is projected by Supervisor Schillo to be completed by the end of the calendar year. At the pace they are working, I am willing to bet the library will not be finished by the end of the calendar year and we will be lucky to have the new library by next September.

I go back to my original question to Supervisor Schillo, the school board and the library district. Why haven’t you provided a temporary library for the community of Oak Park? All of you have been aware of this problem for over a year but have been unable to solve the problem and provide a temporary library. Why not?

Our elected officials have not done a satisfactory job in solving this problem.

Hollow promises of a temporary library may have placated the parents for the summer but now that the school year has started, it seems these promises were made to stall for time.

You are out of time and Oak Park parents expect to have a library for our children now, not in another year. It seems our elected officials don’t think education is as important as the parents of Oak Park do. Why do you think many of us moved here in the first place?

I feel you have let time slip away. It concerns me because even if you now realize how important this issue is, you could not provide a temporary facility in time. Only time will tell how important this issue will turn out to be.

Ed Glass

Oak Park