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Library director highlights endowment growth, ‘lucky day’ collection and security staffing change
Summary
Library Director Bruce Gay told the finance committee the library has ramped fundraising to build an endowment, added a high-turnover "lucky day" collection to improve patron access, and proposes replacing contracted security with two library security positions (0.75 FTE net change) to improve service and lower net cost.
Bruce Gay, director of the Waukesha Public Library, described the library’s 2025 accomplishments and 2026 plans to the Finance Committee on Oct. 14. Gay said the library has focused on private fundraising in recent years and has begun to build an endowment; the library plans a centennial campaign in 2026 with a fundraising goal that would materially grow the endowment.
Gay described a new "lucky…
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