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Fargo library board votes to go on record opposing Senate Bill 2307
Summary
At its March meeting the Fargo Public Library Board voted to record formal opposition to Senate Bill 2307; the Friends of the Fargo Public Library had already submitted similar testimony.
The Fargo Public Library Board voted at its March meeting to go on record in opposition to Senate Bill 2307.
Library Director said the board had submitted testimony representing both the city and the director personally and recommended the board formally register its opposition. "I think it's important that the board go on the record in opposition to Senate Bill 23 0 7," the director said during the meeting. Marissa Nygord, president of the Friends of the Fargo Public Library, told the board the Friends had also written a letter of opposition.
Meeting discussion referenced a committee vote of 12 in favor and 1 opposed and noted the bill had passed the Senate and was moving through the House process; no House floor vote had been taken at the time of the meeting. Board members and the Friends framed the action as a record of the library's position rather than a direct intervening step in the Legislature's process.
The motion to place the board on record in opposition carried by voice vote; the meeting record shows an "aye" and no recorded opposition. The board did not record a roll-call tally during the meeting.
The board did not specify additional steps beyond filing the record of opposition. The director said there remained opportunity for further action while the bill moved forward through the legislative process.
