Letters and email · February 2017Estimated date

Undated draft response to relocation proposals

Earlier draft proposes conditional closure and shed storage if Bard Street closes; the date is estimated from the February 20 version.

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Transcribed from the scans and checked against them by Claude. Typed text comes first; handwritten notes follow it. [illegible] marks words that cannot be read and [?] an uncertain reading.

Draft Letter to Capt McKinnon Thank you for your assistance in helping the Friends of the Library of Hermosa Beach book store relocate, if Bard Street is closed to pedestrian traffic. We have reviewed your proposals, and we have visited the locations of the 3 options. 1) The Shed 2) The records storage area 3) Class room(s) in the Community Center. The FOL Board has come to the following consensus None of the solutions meet our needs so we have elected to do the following if Bard Street closure occurs. 1 We will temporarily close the book Store as a Bookstore. 2) We would like to have the whole shed as a repository for our unsold books and any new books we accrue. This includes better lighting (skylights and light fixtures) and air conditioning/heaters. 3) In the shed we will still sort books looking for valuable items, properly discard unwanted books and periodically have book sales as a sidewalk style event. 4) We would like a small bin outside the shed so people can deposit books for recycling. 5) We still intend to support the HB Library as we have done in the past but we will look for other sources of funds in addition to the periodic book sales. 6) In the future we will continue to look for an optimized area to reestablish the bookstore which we feel does a useful and necessary service to Hermosa Beach. Thank you again and look forward to your help in implementing our proposed move to the shed. Howard Seeb President of the Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library

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Draft Letter to Capt McKinnon
Thank you for your assistance in helping the Friends of the Library of Hermosa Beach book store
relocate, if Bard Street is closed to pedestrian traffic.
We have reviewed your proposals, and we have visited the locations of the 3 options.
1)The Shed
2) The records storage area
3) Class rooms) in the Community Center.
The FOL Board has come to the following consensus
None of the solutions meet our needs so we have elected to do the following if Bard Street closure
occurs.
1 We will temporarily close the book Store as a Bookstore.
2) We would like to have the whole shed as a repository for our unsold books and any new books we
accrue. This includes better lighting (skylights and light fixtures) and air conditioning/heaters.
3) In the shed we will still sort books looking for valuable items, properly discard unwanted books and
periodically have book sales as a sidewalk style event.
4) We would like a small bin outside the shed so people can deposit books for recycling.
5) We still intend to support the HB Library as we have done in the past but we will look for other
sources of funds in addition to the periodic book sales.
6) In the future we will continue to look for an optimized area to reestablish the bookstore which we
feel does a useful and necessary service to Hermosa Beach.
Thank you again and look forward to your help in implementing our proposed move to the shed.
Howard Seeb
President of the Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library