By Carisa Keane
Trustee Robert Rothschild said he has a "real problem" if only three options regarding St. Paul's will be included in the Village Facts due out this fall. "I know that there are more than three options," he said.
Rothschild is referring to threshold use - minor usage of the Main Building's ground floor for community activities - and stabilization - closing the Main Building but allowing it to exist in a controlled state.
He believes these two existing options should be included in the Village Facts, along with the options of converting the building into a library/community center, residential condos or an assisted living facility or demolishing it altogether.
"Residents need to know that those are possibilities. If residents do not want to spend the money themselves on a library or allow a commercial entity to come in to the building, then those are two other options residents need to know about," he said.
Mayor Barbara Miller explained that the Public Information Committee's (referred to as the PIC Committee) charge when she accepted trustee John Mauk's Trustees Committee on St. Paul's report was to turn that around into a Village Facts.
"What else they are doing with it, I don't know," she said. "We will see. I haven't heard that anything has been precluded..."
With regard to the Port Washington Library tour several trustees recently took, Rothschild believes that "If people are saying the library is the way to go and they're pushing visits to a library, then they should allow people to see what a qualified, good looking assisted living facility looks like. Allow people to see what the Port Washington Main Street building looks like so they can see what buildings could look like when they've been rehabilitated by municipal entities."