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Capital Campaign Receives $50,000 gift

Bullard Community Library's Capital Campaign has received a $50,000 gift from a local donor who wishes to remain anonymous. "This is a really big boost for our campaign as we near the $400,000 mark," (UPDATE: as of June 2008, we've crossed the $400,000 mark) according to Martha Dinwiddie, Treasurer.

The donors place a high value on education and expect this gift to stimulate and challenge other individuals and foundations to step forward with large or small gifts to push forward the $1.6 million campaign.

"Bullard is receiving local and state attention as one of the fast-growing, attractive areas in Texas," says Debbie Brown, Library Director. "There are many worthy causes in our area, but none of more lasting importance or value to the entire Bullard community than a new library building. A new, modern, well-furnished and staffed library will be an outstanding asset to the community.

“I ask donors to look seriously at the long-term investment they can make by contributing generously and without delay to our campaign. We have a number of naming opportunities and we welcome inquiries about this possibility."

Some site preparation has already been made and architectural plans are in place. Anyone who would like to see the floor plans and three-dimensional site elevations is invited to come by the library or view the elevations online at the library's website. A link for the Capital Campaign can be found here. 

Local support has been exceptional. A number of businesses joined the initial "Bullard Businesses Back the Library" in 2005. Other fundraisers, including an Evening in Provence, Picnics in the Park, and the Kids' Change for a Change Campaign have boosted the campaign. Local supports totals $168,000; corporate and foundation gifts have added $232,000.

"Interest in the new library building is phenomenal!" says Brown. "We have such a broad base of library users – residents of Bullard, including Emerald Bay and Eagle's Bluff, as well as Flint, Gresham, Mixon, Jacksonville, Whitehouse and Tyler. Library visitors frequently ask me when we will have a new library. I always say that depends on money, and they usually drop something in our donation box at the circulation desk. We have big plans for new programs and offerings when we have the new 10,000 square-foot building. That will be a proud day for all the citizens of the Bullard area."

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Project Description

The proposed new library will be a wood frame structure with brick veneer.  It will have custom architectural features for both interior and exterior components.  The project has been designed to house not only the public library, but other community-based activities as well, that will share in the use of the building.  This new building is being arranged expressly to accommodate diverse functions while retaining the flavor of its primary usage - that of a community library. See additional building perspectives here.

Campaign budget 2005-2008

Capital Campaign Advisory Council

Mr. Jeff Austin, Jr., Chairman / CEO, Austin Bank

The Honorable Leo Berman, State Representative

Mrs. Nancy Cavender, Community Volunteer

Mrs. Marnelle Durrett, Estate Manager and Winemaker, Kiepersol Estates

Councilwoman Pam Frederick, Bullard City Council

Mrs. Kelly Hines, Community Volunteer

Dr. Matthew Vierkant, Internal Medicine, Jacksonville

The Honorable Danny Ray, Municipal Judge

Mr. Jim Wright, Superintendent, Bullard ISD

The Honorable Chuck Hopson, State Representative

Mrs. Lynette Hughes, Community Volunteer

Thanks to these business partners for their generous support of our capital campaign