This is the first year we met all of therequirements to apply for a share of the $602,000 NYS Construction Grant allocated for Monroe County libraries. In March, 2009, we received official notification we were awarded $504,303 of grant money. The grant application process required us to post a bond of up to $1.35 million. A special vote for Town of Mendon was held and passed on September 30. The estimaged tax impact of this bond on Mendon homeowners would be 10 cents per thousand dollars of assessed value (or, for example, an annual cost of $18 for a residence assessed at $180,000).
Why are we applying for this grant?
This grant, plus the bond, will allow us to launch the library project. Our goal is to be fiscally prudent by building a library that fulfills the Mission Statement of the Library Project Steering Committee. We are aggressively pursuing private and other public resources to fund the new library.