Monroe
Vote set today on $12.9 million building
Voters will decide today if the Town of Monroe should spend $12.9 million to build a 40,000-square-foot home for the Monroe Free Library and Town Hall.
Polling stations have been set up in two places: Kiryas Joel residents will vote in the basement of the Ezras Choilim Medical Center on Forest Road; everyone else in Monroe will cast ballots at the Monroe Senior Center on Mine Road. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
If approved, the two-story building would be erected on town-owned land off Route 208 at the entrance to the Village of Monroe. Library officials estimate the project would raise taxes by $1.94 per $1,000 of assessed value, or $97 a year for a home assessed at $50,000.