r/saskatoon Nov 27 '24

New renderings of the downtown Library News 📰

https://saskatooncentrallibrary.ca/explore/renderings-images/
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u/spaceman_88 Nov 27 '24

I’d rather have graded streets because we seem to get snow here. If we are that poor a library shouldn’t be in the budget along with a downtown arena that will cost 10 times the price today, billions more.

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u/_biggerthanthesound_ Nov 27 '24

Did you know that the average homeowner paid an additional $1.60 per year than the last (making it about $243 total in a year) for this new library. So not much.

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u/spaceman_88 Nov 27 '24

Did you know $300,000 of your tax dollars were spent naming the new bus system??

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 27 '24

Just because its not a lot, does not mean that it is not money that could have gone to other tax funded projects.

Tax bases only have so much money, and the city decides its property taxes knowing it is not in a vacuum.

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u/_biggerthanthesound_ Nov 27 '24

Right. And to most people, the cost of this is an important and critical community program. Which is why it has the funding that it has allocated to it.

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 27 '24

Sure. But that does not discount OP's statement that he would have preferred to just have more money for snow removal.

I am inclined to agree.

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u/_biggerthanthesound_ Nov 27 '24

You’re right. He can have that opinion. I’m just glad that the members of council don’t share that, because this project is worth it.

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 27 '24

this project is worth it.

To you

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u/_biggerthanthesound_ Nov 27 '24

Yes. To me. And many others.

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u/WriterAndReEditor Nov 28 '24

To lots of people. Plenty of us talk all the time about how we should be doing more to provide outlets for people (especially kids and teens) before they get drawn into criminal activity. This is a solid part of addressing that. Cooking classes, a gaming room, a space for learning to produce video, all of these are intended to engage the community and we hope they will divert a few people away from things we'd rather they not be doing.