Group Seeks Legal Advice To Save Library

GULFPORT (WLOX) -- The fighting goes on to salvage the old business district Gulfport library, but now the grouping 'We are the People' have a different program of action.

Wednesday nighttime they held a particular meeting where the grouping is getting some legal advice on how to salvage the library.

There were some familiar human faces at the particular meeting and some new 1s too. But whether these people cognize each other or not, what they make cognize is that they necessitate aid in economy the business district library.

"We've gone to the city, we've gone to the mayor, we've gone to the metropolis council, so what picks make we have got left," said Caprice Clark, a member of 'We the People.'

She states the organisation have exhausted almost all of its options. That's why they called on lawyer Henry Laird to help.

"It contracts down to a very simple inquiry in my mind. Volition the federal finances available to reconstruct or fix the library be used to travel the library to Orange Grove, as well as to mend the old 1 in business district Gulfport?" Laird said.

It's the million dollar question, and the lawyer believes he have the answer.

"We are either very correct or very wrong, and I believe we're very right," Laird said.

The grouping states they've been told respective modern times that finances from FEMA cannot be used to reconstruct the business district library, but no one's seen that in writing.

Laird states that's because there was a common error between local officials.

"I believe both the county and metropolis were told something that was not correct or was misunderstood and they acted on that. If the county heard that it had to pulverize the building, but it didn't have got to, that's A mistake. If the metropolis heard the same thing, that's A mistake. In that event, neither side have to travel forward with demolition," Laird said.

That's why he will inquire the Board of Supervisors for a moratorium on the edifice until he can acquire a written reply from FEMA. And he's confident that volition in fact save the library.

Laird states he bes after to talk to the Rex Harrison County Board of Supervisors as soon as Thursday.

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