It survived a suggested budget cut — and is helping to keep the Dixwell neighborhood going.
People in Dixwell rallied earlier this month when Mayor John DeStefano suggested that he might proposed shutting down the Stetson Branch Library in order to save money in a tight budget year.
Reel News reporters Miya Brooks and Bianka O’Bryan, who attend New Haven public high schools, investigated the role Stetson plays in the community.
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(Reel News is a joint project of Youth Rights Media and the New Haven Independent. Click here for previous reports.)
I'm not sure what percentage of the NH Library's $5M budget goes to Stetson, but since its one of five branches, it must be a significant number even if its not 1/5th.
Is it really that hard for kids and other people to walk 3/4 of a mile on the well populated dixwell/elm to the downtown main branch? I walk one and a half miles to and from work every day and it only takes me about 20 minutes.
I'm all for providing kids with places to be and be educated but we're talking about a redundent facility that is really close to the downtown facility. We're also talking about a 5 year period in which taxpayers are seeing 20% annual tax increases.