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Watch: Selectmen Blast Library Fund-Raisers
"I don't know why anybody gives you any money at all. I wouldn't give you a dime," Edgartown selectman Michael Donaroma tells Edgartown Library Foundation president Susan Cahoon in this MVTV video from Monday's meeting.
An to the Edgartown Public Library building fund raised the ire of Edgartown selectman Michael Donaroma at Monday's board of selectmen's meeting.
In this MVTV video of the proceedings, Donaroma blasts Edgartown Library Foundation president Susan Cahoon after she tells him there are "a couple of conditions that have to be met" before the donation, currently in a bank account, is transferred to the library building fund.
"I don't know why anybody gives you any money at all. I wouldn't give you a dime," Donaroma said.
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"If that's the way you do, I think that's absurd, just absurd. What a way to run a nonprofit," he continues.
"Condition on top of condition on top of condition. Smoke and mirror, smoke and mirror, smoke and mirror."
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The other selectmen also have less-than-flattering assessments of the foundation's performance:
"The money never seems to get to the library," says Arthur Smadbeck. "The extra layer of this foundation has been awkward."
Margaret Serpa says, "the foundation is more of a hindrance at this point than helping the library move forward."
Watch the MVTV video above for the entire discussion with foundation members and town selectmen.
For more about the library, please see:
- Edgartown Approves Library Move
- Where's the Money? Edgartown Asks Library Foundation
- Letter: Foundation Responds to Edgartown Library Fundraising Flap
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