Sample Letters to the Mayor and CouncilYou can copy and paste from this website to the Borough Contact Form- You can also download the sample letters as word documents to personalize before e-mail, web or post submittal. E-mail addresses and the postal address for the Council members and the Mayor can be found here.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Having a library/community center in Watchung is an invaluable asset. I am willing to give up one family dinner out per year to pay my share.
Please vote yes to support our library.
Sincerely,
Concerned, educated citizen
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
I don’t want my tax dollars to pay for a library in another town. I am willing to borrow one DVD a year instead of going to the movies with my family.
Watchung needs to come together for a library/community center.
Sincerely,
Fiscally conservative citizen
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Keep a library in Watchung! I’ll gladly give up one Starbucks coffee a month to cover my share.
I look forward to the day when we can celebrate our town council for having a vision with a library/community center in it.
Sincerely,
Citizen with a vision
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
I don’t want to pay the mandated municipal library tax to another municipality.
I don’t want to pay operating expenses and upkeep to another town’s facility.
I don’t want to pay for another town to upgrade their library!
I do want my property taxes to recover.
I want to enjoy our library in our town.
This matters! Please vote yes to support our library!
Sincerely,
Concerned Watchung Citizen
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Having a library in town speaks volumes about what kind of people we are, what kind of town we want to live in, and what kind kind of town we want to leave for the future. This decision will be your legacy. Do you want to be remembered as the council that reduced our town to little more than a satellite of Warren? Or do you want to be remembered as the council that revitalized the town beginning with a library, arts center, and community center.
Be the council that has the vision to create a vibrant community with an active, engaged town center. Please vote for a new library/community and arts center.
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Buying Watchung Lake was a brave decision. And a great one.
Building a new library/community Center for Watchung is an even better one!
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
In 2013, Watchung Library circulated nearly 90,000 items, which comes to about about 15 per resident. The average in the nation and the rest of New Jersey is between 5 and 6 per person. This enthusiasm demonstrates that Watchung needs and wants a library here in our own town.
Please vote to build a new library/community center in Watchung!
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
If Watchung Library closes, Watchung residents will continue to pay the same amount of tax dollars that we have been paying for our own library, but we will have nothing here in town. Furthermore, we will have no control over future decisions affecting Warren Library and the costs that we may be asked to take on.
Please vote for a new library in Watchung - our own library, not someone else's!
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
We in Watchung currently own two old, dilapidated buildings - the Watchung Library and the Watchung Arts Center. Both are in need of expensive repairs and upgrades. Both are expensive to operate.
Either of the two proposals of the Library Study Ad Hoc Group to construct a new building (the one-story building or the two-stroy building) makes tremendous sense. The new building will provide a library, space for the arts center, and a badly needed community center - which we currently lack. We can get out from under the burden of maintaining and operating two expensive buildings and replace that with one building that will be not only less expensive to maintain and operate, but will also provide more functionality than what we have now.
Please vote to build a new library, arts center, and community center in Watchung!
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Watchung Library is the second smallest library building in Somerset County, but our library has the highest circulation per square foot of any Somerset County branch.
Watchung needs its own library! Please vote to build a new library for Watchung.
Thank you.
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Dear Mayor Pote, Councilman Joren or Beck-Clemens, or Councilman Black, Franklin, Gibbs, or Nehls,
Don't let Watchung Library close forever on your watch!
Please vote to build a new library for Watchung.
Thank you.
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