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Dane County Library Service and Emergency Management conditional use permit narrative: Location: 1880 S Stoughton Road,Town of Blooming Grove Parcel#:0710-161-9640-9 The County of Dane is currently in negotiations with the Town of Blooming Grove to purchase the Town of Blooming Grove Fire Station building located at 1880 S Stoughton Road. Dane County will utilize the existing structure as an office and operation facility for the Dane County Library Service (DCLS) and for storage of Dane County Emergency Management (DCEM)equipment. The property is zoned C-2 Commercial, a district which requires a conditional use permit for Governmental Uses. DCLS operates Monday through Saturday between 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM (late evening hours are limited to the return of the Readmobile and Bookmobile). DCLS staffs 10- 15 employees and currently operates out of the Dane County Job Center location on Madison's north side. DCLS has several functions that occur within its physical home. The first of these is the housing and maintenance of a 50K collection of books, DVDs, music, audiobooks and kits. This collection is housed on free-standing ranges of shelving. The collection serves patrons all over Dane County through the Bookmobile and Outreach delivery, as well as patrons throughout the 7-county South Central Library System. The staff access the collection on a regular basis, pulling items for holds, stocking the Bookmobile and setting items in delivery for senior living facilities and day cares. DCLS primarily provides Outreach Services and this facility is not intended for patronage by library users. Through these services, materials are selected, prepared and sent out to more than 80 senior living and day care facilities every Thursday and Friday. These collections are rotated monthly and are picked up, delivered, and then returned via the South Central Library Delivery service. They also serve homebound patrons. In addition to the delivery of materials,the Outreach Librarian makes multiple monthly trips to various day cares around Dane County in the Readmobile, a box truck in which she transports bins of play literacy materials. The Readmobile also serves as a back up to the Bookmobile when the bus is out of service. This facility will also be home to the Bookmobile, a 35 foot bus filled with library materials. It makes stops at 16 different locations throughout Dane County Monday through Saturday. The Bookmobile drivers also serve as selectors of the library collection and make their offices at DCLS. The Bookmobile is on the road year-round, Monday through Thursday,from about 1:30pm to 8:45pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:30am to 3:30pm. The Bookmobile offers an adult and children's Summer Reading Program for 6-8 weeks every summer, complete with crafts and programming in specific communities. Both the Readmobile and Bookmobile will be stored indoors when not in use. The South Central Library System Delivery Service makes daily morning stops at DCLS to pick up outgoing items and drop off returned items. UPS makes several deliveries per week to deliver new materials or to pick up boxes of items for Better World Books.