Piedmont Avenue Library Community Meetings April, 2010 Sponsors: Friends of Piedmont Ave Library Piedmont Ave Neighborhood Improvement League SUMMARY • Tenant since March 1932 • Current Lease of $1.00 per month • September 2009, Citibank sold property • New Owner: Goodhue Property Investments • Existing Lease expires October 2010 • New Lease of $4,250 per month; November 2010 • City Council has approved new 1-year lease & 1-year option. • Funding beyond June 2011 to be addressed in FY 2011-13
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Piedmont Avenue Library Community Meetings
April, 2010 Sponsors: Friends of Piedmont Ave Library
Piedmont Ave Neighborhood Improvement League
SUMMARY
• Tenant since March 1932 • Current Lease of $1.00 per month • September 2009, Citibank sold property • New Owner: Goodhue Property Investments • Existing Lease expires October 2010 • New Lease of $4,250 per month; November 2010 • City Council has approved new 1-year lease &
1-year option. • Funding beyond June 2011 to be addressed in FY 2011-13
Branch costs in this profile reflect budgeted, not actual figures. The Oakland Public Library had numerous vacancies throughout the system during FY08-09, resulting in lower actual branch costs than were budgeted.
Piedmont Avenue Library
Demographics
• Service Area Population: 19,177 • Per capita income: $55,316 • Branch cost/resident: $24.40 • Branch visits (FY08-09): 185,033 • Visits/resident: 9.65 • Branch cost/visit: $2.53
Schools within 1 mile of branch Public: 7 Charter: 1 Private: 7
Preschool: 8 Elementary: 9 Middle: 10 High school: 5
Piedmont Avenue Library Branch Profile
Piedmont Avenue Library
Collection: 48,915 items
Collection by Item Type
Fiction (19,503) Non-Fiction (23,376) Audio (2,780) Video (3,256)
Collection by Target Age
Child (18,993) Young Adult (2,835) Adult (27,087)
Collection Highlights
• Non-fiction collection emphasizes philosophy, history, poetry, and biography • Branch houses largest LGBT collection in the East Bay • 102 periodical subscriptions • DVD collection focuses on TV series, documentaries, and foreign language
• Public use computers: 3 • Computer sessions: 8,880 • Hours used: 3,958 • % of available computer time used: 66.31% • % of available booking sessions used: 89.32%
Friends of Piedmont Ave Library Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League (PANIL)
• Would you support a library on Broadway if funding was available through Redevelopment?
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
Would you support a library on Broadway or MacArthur if space/funding was available in the Kaiser complex?
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
Would you support a special tax assessment district (Mello-Roos, similar to Rockridge Library district) to fund a new library? This would increase taxes for every homeowner.
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
• Would you support a new library on a portion of the Key Route parking lot – Howe Street between 40th and 41st Streets? This could be a multi-storied structure
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
• The current library is within one block of Piedmont Avenue. How far from Piedmont Avenue do you feel the library can be placed and still enjoy community support?
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
• The current library is 1,700 SF. Is the size right?
Piedmont Avenue Library Summary of Survey
• What is your preference for the next one to three years?
Piedmont Avenue Library Options Discussion
Shorter Term
• Stay in Current Location & Pay Rent (~$51K/year) • Move to Another Location & Pay Less Rent & Less Space • Move into Portable Building: School or Parking Lot
• 43% of City of Piedmont residents are OPL Cardholders • Piedmont Checkouts in 2008-09: 88,000 items; only 3.61% of total circ • On average, Piedmont cardholders checked out 18.24 items compared to 11.17 items per Oakland cardholder • City of Piedmont currently pays $355K to City of Oakland for library svcs