POTENTIAL COMMUNITY
CENTER DISCUSSED
2025 May 5
Approximately twenty-five community members gathered in the Cedar Key Library’s second floor meeting room at 11 am today to discuss a potential Cedar Key Community Center. The round table seating arrangement urged participation, of which there was much from a broad spectrum of Cedar Keyans. Old folks, residents, off-island residents who consider Cedar Key their home, readily engaged.
Newly seated Commissioner Dell Weible received affirmation from his audience that indeed, the town is in need of a Community Center and that a start on the planning was long overdue. Weible suggested that such a project should be community driven and he might, energetically and happily, function as the Cedar Key Commission liaison. A “sub-committee” of community members might be formed. The concept was heartily agreed upon by the group.
Among the suggestions from the group were:
• including additional younger folks at the next meeting;
• the sub-committee should include some people with planning, building, and financial expertise;
• reliance upon a private property owner to provide the public service the city has provided was found to be too unreliable;
• funds might come from donations, “knocking on doors,” donated labor, etc.
• grants, because they can be laden with conditions, would be a less desirable funding source.
The forty-five-minute meeting concluded with Weible’s intent to establish a second meeting date later in the day to accommodate daily workers. Then and there, a sub-committee would be established. The audience remained after the meeting for a time chatting among themselves and with Weible about the potential project.
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