Comments on: Help Preserve Hours at Columbia, New Holly & Beacon Hill Libraries

By: laurel

laurel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:46:33 +0000

thanks Heather – maybe we should pass levies that adequately fund both – why have a supersized capital budget and then an operating budget that is not sufficient to maintain the new facilities funded by the capital budget? Maybe the levy should have been for both?

By: Melinda

Melinda — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:36:10 +0000

No, it’s not just southend branches affected by the proposed hour reduction. Almost all of the branches are on the list for cuts.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:48:37 +0000

No they are reducing hours at all but 5 branches scattered all over the city. Read about it here. http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_history

And Laurel p there is a serious difference between capital budgets and operating budgets.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:26:07 +0000

So they’re only reducing services at southend branches? Hmmm…

By: laurel

laurel — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:18:24 +0000

I am so glad we passed that huge library levy so we could remodel all of our libraries and then reduce the hours.

By: Jennifer Johnson-Fong

Jennifer Johnson-Fong — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:01 +0000

Thank you so much Rainier Valley Post for getting the word out to your neighbors using the Columbia, Beacon Hill and New Holly branches.

Thanks to all Rainer Valley Post readers who send an email.

Best wishes,
Jennifer Johnson-Fong
Vice President, Friends of The Seattle Public Library
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By: mimi_t_b

mimi_t_b — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:01 +0000

i wrote my letter thanks