Two objectives: A Municipal Library up to Standards and the Preservation of the Roussell House

Brownsburg-Chatham, Québec, Canada
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About Us

We are a non-partisan coalition of citizens of Brownsburg-Chatham, who have at heart the fate of our library and our architectural heritage. We believe that the library should be relocated to a bigger house, better equipped and be endowed with sufficient human resources to meet the needs of the population. The Roussell house (Principale/des Érables) is one of the last heritage building of interest to be located downtown.

The coalition has acknowledged the lack of support among the population for the relocalisation of the library in the Russell house. We now consider them as two separate files.

Luc Bélisle, Hélène Boivin, Michel Brisson, Jean Careau, Gilles Desforges, Cynthia Dubé, Anik Ferland, Pierre Gagnon, François Jobin, Sophie LaRoche, Diane Leduc, Mylène Mondou, Gilbert Poupart, Maurice Rochon, Claire Thivierge, Kathleen Wilson.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

2011 Budget

The budget adopted by the board this Tuesday, December 21, 2011 allocates $10,000 to purchase books, a spending item that had been cut for 2010. It should be noted that the 2009 budget was $12 133 for that item and the standard referred to in Québec is $ 24 377.


A budget of 2.6 million has also been planned to build a new library in 2013, should the project be received by the Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women. The board said it was aware it had to apply as soon as possible.

Furthermore, the population was informed of a tax increase of over 20% for the year 2011.

Friday, December 10, 2010

A Small Step for the Library - Some Hope for the Russell House

At the last council meeting of Brownsburg-Chatham held on the 6th of December was adopted a resolution to accept the letter of intent to purchase the building said Roussell.


It is an offer from the Maison de la famille, for which the committee has been reunited by Mr. Gilles Desforges. He has indeed found people to revive the project. The tender offer is conditional (financing, engineering report, contractors, insurance) and for a period of 6 months. There would be opportunity to partner with other organisations to occupy the house. A story to be continued.

Another resolution adopted at the same meeting was the amendment to the hiring of the loan officer at the public library. After verification, it is an increase in working hours of one of the staff. So it's a small step towards getting back to the situation that prevailed last year. They'd just need to hire a third person and bring back the budget to purchase books to get us back at where we were. The story is always, of course, to follow.

The budget will be adopted December 21, 2010. We will report back at that time.

Have a good weekend!