Politics & Government

Donations Sought for Albany Tool Pool

If you're planning to clean out your garage or shed, consider donating extra tools to the city's new Tool Pool.

Has the native flora in your backyard grown waist-high, but you really don’t want
to own a weed wacker? Have turkeys permanently defaced your power drill? Are you circular-saw impaired?

The City of Albany Recreation & Community Services Department is starting
a tool lending library—Albany Tool Pool—so that we can all share those
tools we only need every once in a while.

Tool lending libraries work like regular libraries, except you don’t read the tools, you use them instead. Tool lending libraries give the community access to needed tools, without people having to purchase and store such things. Albany Tool Pool will provide low-cost access to tools, foster sustainability, and build community through sharing. All good, right?

Donations are now being accepted. Drop off your extra hand tools, gardening
tools, working power tools or anything your neighbors might need for
do-it-yourself home improvement projects.

Donations are accepted at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany.

The Albany Tool Pool opens in August.

--Information submitted by City of Albany


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