r/saskatoon • u/_biggerthanthesound_ • Nov 27 '24

New renderings of the downtown Library News 📰

https://saskatooncentrallibrary.ca/explore/renderings-images/

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 28 '24

Maybe so, but completely not relevant to my point.

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u/WriterAndReEditor Nov 28 '24

I guess we'll disagree. I see the money as providing more value to the citizens than it would if spent on snow clearing.

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 28 '24

The post that you replied to was just talking about how a dollar already taxed cannot be used for something else.

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u/WriterAndReEditor Nov 28 '24

And I don't disagree with that. Only the implication of your later words in the context of following the original sub-thread creators claim that the library shouldn't be in the budget before grading.

"Every dollar that the library takes is a dollar that the city cannot" implies that the library's use is less valid than the city's. I think the money is better spent on a library than on extra grading.

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u/TheLuminary East Side Nov 28 '24

Having a fancy library is a want. Being able to get to work is a need.

It's not complicated.

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u/WriterAndReEditor Nov 28 '24

Apparently too complicated for some people to be willing to look at the evidence for the good libraries do for the community. In particular, the disenfranchised who will get very little from extra snow clearing in neighbourhoods.