Comments about ‘Springville hopes voters OK library bond’

We are recent move-ins to the west side of Springville. Being not familiar with the area we were not familiar with train tracks literally out our back door. (With more tracks to come, and more frequent). One city council member so thoughtfully said, "Oh you never notice the trains, in fact, you just get used to them". The realtor left out this fact too when these homes were sold, or at the very least said, it just comes by "a couple of times a day". Dishonest from top to bottom. The city HAS to be accountable for allowing developments to be located so close to tracks. So I vote no, to the library, and vote for a concrete sound barrier and a quiet zone ordinance for those citizens of Springville way out west that no one seems to care about. Also thank you for the beautiful pile of rocks for a round-a-about at the entrance of our community, and the wonderful addition of D.I.

You can't blame everything on the city. You should have talked to neighbors about the trains, or about city services. And it sounds like you did not really shop around for a real estate agent. But your first clue should have been WALMART! Who wants to live that close to Wally-World?

Yes, Springville has its problems, the biggest is not preparing for the massive growth. But the Library is a great start in the right direction. A library is a center for a community, it enhances the residences lives, through education, a resource for genealogy, knowledge, arts, tolerance, and the sense of a belonging to a community. By voting yes to the library bond you vote yes for us. This will only increase the value of Springville and of your life.

Research has shown that people who read and attend a library are more active in their community, more likely to volunteer, donate to charities, active in sports, live healthy lives, successful in their jobs, tolerate to other cultures, travel, and are happier. (Reading at Risk Executive Summary by NEA). Voting yes will only help Springville to finial do something right.

I'll vote for a Library bond after we get a recreation center. A rec center would do a lot more for this community than a larger library. Our top priority should be our youth and our health, both of which benefit from a rec center more than a library.

I love a good library. Unfortunately, with the economy the way it is, I don't have an extra $100 per month to fork over to the city government. And with $1,200 a year, I could stock my own library and get books I actually want to read.

"It's an inexpensive time to bond," Fitzgerald said.

This isn't really a true statement. I watch the financial news stations and they NEVER talk about bonds for cities, but I've seen lots of articles and stories in the last few months about what an awful time this is "to bond" and how high the rates are.

At least you could be straight up with us....

Does anyone no if they are still talking about a county wide library system. We love the Provo libray at academy square. Lets save the money here and put that toward better parks and recreation. We do not have good baseball parks, city swimming pool, tennis courts, skate parks, etc.