1 public works committee hearing, Township Manager Robert Zienkowski “told the commissioners that all the buildings are in very poor condition, and that it would take a lot of money to fix them - not just the community centers - all of the buildings that are owned by Cheltenham Township,” Moran said.

A quick patch allowed the building to remain open then, but problems at the two buildings were discovered during subsequent inspections, meaning the East Cheltenham and La Mott libraries would have to close.Īt a Sept. The issue with the boilers first came to a head last fall at the Rowland Community Center, the site of the East Cheltenham Library.

Abington, Norristown, Wissahickon Valley, and Lower Merion also have multiple branches. The system, which primarily receives funding through the township - $1.7 million in FY20-21 - and from Pennsylvania, is one of the few in Montgomery County with more than one library location. They were combined several decades ago under the nonprofit library system so they could share resources. The four libraries serving the township, which has a population of more than 37,000, started out as separate institutions in the neighborhoods of Glenside, Elkins Park, East Cheltenham, and La Mott. “The township manager has given me his assurance that if we can find an area where we might set up a temporary location, he’ll reach out to property owners in the area and see if we can get a low-rent or no-rent situation, so that we can still be near those neighborhoods,” Moran said.

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