1982.09.30 _ Extension name change may save YCCC $20,000
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1982.09.30 _ Extension name change may save YCCC $20,000
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Cahill, Gary J.
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"John C. Hart Memorial Library Historical News Clippings" Binder, Volume 2, 1972 - 1990
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The Evening Star
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1982-09-30
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Yorktown (N.Y. : Town)
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'YORKTOWN HEIGHTS - Calling the Yorktown Heights extension of the John C. Hart Memorial Library . a "reading room" instead of using the word "library" may save the Yorktown Community and Cultural Center some $20,000.
In July, the board of directors of the Shrub Oak-based library and its director agreed on a compromise with the Yorktown Town Board, which owns the YCCC building.
If the Yorktown Heights library extension could remain on the first floor of the YCCC, and not be relocated into the three-story building's basement, the library extension would give up its combinatlon office and children's programs room.
The rental of that 700-foot apace by YCCC Director Judy Ellison would be used to offset the projected $20,000 cost of shoring up the library extension's floor, thus allowing the facility to remain in its present location.
It was discovered earlier this year . ·that to be in accordance with the state's building code, a library Door must be able to support a minimum weight of 150 pounds per square foot.
The library extension, located in a former classroom of the former Sixth Grade School purchased by the town two years ago, is rated at 61 pounds per square foot.
While Mrs. Ellison and town officials maintained that there was no danger of a collapse, something had to be done in order to protect the town from a liability standpoint.
THE TOWN BOARD'S initial solution was to have the library extension relocated to the basement area immediately below its current location. But library Director Cobb Stewart claimed that the needed . renovations would be costly and that the basement location would prove noisy and damp for library extension patrons and employees.
After the compromise solution was agreed to by all parties, a New York City engir.eering firm, Goldrich, Page and Tbropp, analyzed the situation.
The recommendation calls for the library extension to limit the height of 'book shelves to four rows and for the town to refer to the facility as a "reading room," not a "library."
Yorktown Supervisor Nancy Elliott said Wednesday that this change in title for tlie facility was apparently being recommended to by pass the minimum weight rating required for library floors in the state building code that is more than twice the rating of the floor.
The consulting engineering firm's recent letter to YCCC Director Ellison states that "considering a reasonable load spread" on the floor, it should prove adequate as is.
SUPERVISOR ELLIOTT said that before the borad endorese the consulting engineer's recommendations she would contact Mrs. Stewart to determine it the book shelf height limit was satisfactory for her.
Mrs. Elliott said, however, she thought it was "very possible" that the recommendations are of so limited an impact on the library extension-or, rather, the "reading room"-that the library director would agree to go along.
Mrs. Stwart was not available for comment this morning.
Over at the YCCC, Mrs. Ellison appeared delighted at the recommendations, saying that if the $20,000 or so need not to be spent on shoring up the floor, it could be allocated for heating improvements or other rehibilitation work to the interior or exterior of the 64-year-old building and new additions.
The $20,000 would have had to come from the YCCC's capital budget.
The YCCC is now in the second of a five-year, $1.5 million rehabilitatiaon project, "although with Reaganomics, it might turn out to be a 10-year plan, said Mrs. Ellison. She claims that federal aid cutbacks, have cut into a formerly large potential funding source for the not-for-profit YCCC.
Mrs. Ellison said that the height of book shelves in the "reading room" is currently five rows, one more than the consulting engineering firm's recommendation calls for.
Asked if the facility would regain its 700-square food former office and children's programs room. Mrs. Ellison siad that since Spet, 1 it has been occupied by a program of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).
BOCES regularly rents space outside its Yorktown Heights and Carmel campuses for the conduction of its programs and, added Mrs. Ellison, "they're paying top dollar" to the YCCC.
In July, the board of directors of the Shrub Oak-based library and its director agreed on a compromise with the Yorktown Town Board, which owns the YCCC building.
If the Yorktown Heights library extension could remain on the first floor of the YCCC, and not be relocated into the three-story building's basement, the library extension would give up its combinatlon office and children's programs room.
The rental of that 700-foot apace by YCCC Director Judy Ellison would be used to offset the projected $20,000 cost of shoring up the library extension's floor, thus allowing the facility to remain in its present location.
It was discovered earlier this year . ·that to be in accordance with the state's building code, a library Door must be able to support a minimum weight of 150 pounds per square foot.
The library extension, located in a former classroom of the former Sixth Grade School purchased by the town two years ago, is rated at 61 pounds per square foot.
While Mrs. Ellison and town officials maintained that there was no danger of a collapse, something had to be done in order to protect the town from a liability standpoint.
THE TOWN BOARD'S initial solution was to have the library extension relocated to the basement area immediately below its current location. But library Director Cobb Stewart claimed that the needed . renovations would be costly and that the basement location would prove noisy and damp for library extension patrons and employees.
After the compromise solution was agreed to by all parties, a New York City engir.eering firm, Goldrich, Page and Tbropp, analyzed the situation.
The recommendation calls for the library extension to limit the height of 'book shelves to four rows and for the town to refer to the facility as a "reading room," not a "library."
Yorktown Supervisor Nancy Elliott said Wednesday that this change in title for tlie facility was apparently being recommended to by pass the minimum weight rating required for library floors in the state building code that is more than twice the rating of the floor.
The consulting engineering firm's recent letter to YCCC Director Ellison states that "considering a reasonable load spread" on the floor, it should prove adequate as is.
SUPERVISOR ELLIOTT said that before the borad endorese the consulting engineer's recommendations she would contact Mrs. Stewart to determine it the book shelf height limit was satisfactory for her.
Mrs. Elliott said, however, she thought it was "very possible" that the recommendations are of so limited an impact on the library extension-or, rather, the "reading room"-that the library director would agree to go along.
Mrs. Stwart was not available for comment this morning.
Over at the YCCC, Mrs. Ellison appeared delighted at the recommendations, saying that if the $20,000 or so need not to be spent on shoring up the floor, it could be allocated for heating improvements or other rehibilitation work to the interior or exterior of the 64-year-old building and new additions.
The $20,000 would have had to come from the YCCC's capital budget.
The YCCC is now in the second of a five-year, $1.5 million rehabilitatiaon project, "although with Reaganomics, it might turn out to be a 10-year plan, said Mrs. Ellison. She claims that federal aid cutbacks, have cut into a formerly large potential funding source for the not-for-profit YCCC.
Mrs. Ellison said that the height of book shelves in the "reading room" is currently five rows, one more than the consulting engineering firm's recommendation calls for.
Asked if the facility would regain its 700-square food former office and children's programs room. Mrs. Ellison siad that since Spet, 1 it has been occupied by a program of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).
BOCES regularly rents space outside its Yorktown Heights and Carmel campuses for the conduction of its programs and, added Mrs. Ellison, "they're paying top dollar" to the YCCC.
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Cahill, Gary J., “1982.09.30 _ Extension name change may save YCCC $20,000,” John C Hart Library Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://hartarchive.omeka.net/items/show/154.