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Timothy Klusczinski, President, Historic Preservation Commission — Sep. 17, 2012 pane 11 <br />of costs for the new Main Library on pages 47 through 75. In fact, except for the photo (#13 <br />on page 5) and the Demolition plan on page 5, the Strand/Avon is not mentioned as a part of <br />the new Main Library. The Avon is not there and has not been since those plans were <br />developed in 2007. All of this was published and posted to the SJCPL website since <br />September 24, 2007, and has been explained to the St. Joseph County Council every year <br />since 2007 when I presented SJCPL's Capital Projects Plan. These plans have never been <br />taken down from the Library's website. They are easily found from the Library's homepage. <br />In fact, historical postings to certain blogs dated 2007, 2008 and 2009 that can still be <br />accessed on the web by using Google turn up several public comments and discussions <br />about these plans. <br />To sum up, our second assertion is that since March 2007 when the former Avon Theatre <br />building was purchased by the Library from Downtown South Bend, Inc. and again since <br />September 24, 2007 when the Schematic Design plans for the new Main Library were <br />approved by the Library Board in an open Library Board meeting and published on the <br />Library's web site, the St. Joseph County Public Library in a good faith effort has let it <br />be known to all taxpayers of St. Joseph County, IN, to all elected officials, South Bend <br />City and St. Joseph County alike, that it fully intended to demolish the Strand/Avon <br />Theatre as part of its Main Library expansion plans along the entire length of the 300 <br />block of South Michigan Street. These plans have been a matter of public record since <br />September 24, 2007, and were discussed numerous times in public meetings. The <br />Library can provide approved Library Board minutes to support this assertion of <br />openness and transparency in its plans for the new Main Library on the 300 block of <br />South Michigan Street. <br />Recipient of the 2009 Leighton Award for Nonprofit Excellence <br />www.libraryforlife.org <br />