Today's Press Democrat reported on Progressive Sebastopol's community action Wednesday evening demanding the restoration of library hours.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...o-expand-hours
Here is a three minute video of me delivering that message.
I asked that the Commissioners either create a budget option in the coming fiscal year to restore library hours, or resign.
We, the People, who pay for our libraries and fund our County's $1.3 billion annual budget, need at least a plan that we can then lobby our County Supervisors to fund. Otherwise it is a Catch-22, leaving more than 100,000 regular library users suffering from this historically unprecedented, irresponsive, and irresponsible failure of Responsive Government.
Yes, the library budget is tight. And yes, the new Joint Powers Agreement will create a mechanism to restore hours WHEN it takes budgetary effect in perhaps TWO or THREE YEARS! But we have waited long enough, and it is unacceptable to me, and the thousands of County residents who have signed petitions to re-open the libraries, that our government is unwilling to provide interim financing to restore these hours in the coming year.
Here is a video of nearly a dozen other citizens who followed my, also demanding the restoration of hours
And here is the cover article in the Bohemian about the failure of the Library Commissioners and the unqillingness of our Supervisors to take responsibility for fixing this crisis
https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/lo...nt?oid=2432713
As well as a column I wrote about the Supervisors and our County budget
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...nion/130619853
We'll have another petition on this within a month or so...if anyone wants to assist with this campaign, please let me know. We can do it, but it's going to take public awareness, and pressure on our Supervisors, in the coming month.