Carson City--Awash with Underutilized, Uncoordinated Libraries
Did you know that our relatively small community has 26 libraries which are not managed, operated or funded in an integrated way?
Each of the 22 private and public schools has its own library. Then there are four public libraries (Western Nevada College, city, State Library and Archives, State Law Library). Two of these libraries (State Library and Archives and the State Law Library) are woefully underutilized.
In addition, we have a Business Research and Innovation Center (BRIC) to service the small number of hopeful entrepreneurs and three major museums (Railroad, State and Children's).
All told, we have 29 Carson City 'knowledge and discovery' centers, the latest euphemism concocted to promote a new city library in spite of the hard realities invalidating its necessity or viability.
It won't matter one whit how much 'knowledge and discovery' one of us has if there are no employers with open jobs. City Center brings no new, permanent jobs to Carson City. No rational business owner locates in a community because it has a new, glitzy city library.
We need new, family-wage jobs, not higher property and sales taxes, so why isn't Carson City aggressively advertising in the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay area? The message: Businesses, bring your overtaxed, over-regulated, oppressed operations to the type of town and state most people would choose to work and live in. . .Carson City, NV. Ensure that permitting and relocation are both streamlined and one-stop efforts so that we can fill up our woefully empty business park north of the airport and multiple, empty commercial spaces around town. Engage local commercial real estate agents to spread the message through their company web sites.
Where is the leadership for anything but the unnecessary, fatally-flawed City Center project from our city officials?
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