Resident urges involvement in new Southwest Lubbock library design, objects to address requirement for public comment
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A resident, Gail Modrill, asked to join the new library branch committee, suggested surveying library staff and patrons about desired features (genealogy section, children’s area), and objected to the council's requirement that speakers provide their address to comment in person.
Gail Modrill, a Lubbock resident, addressed the City Council on Jan. 28 during the citizen-comment period to offer volunteer help on the new library branch in southwest Lubbock and to object to a council rule requiring speakers to give their address.
Modrill said she lives at 5233 16th Street and objected to the address requirement; she also commended the council’s appointment of an architectural firm for the branch (Park Hill Architects) and asked to serve on the new-library committee. As an architect’s daughter, she said she can read blueprints and would interview library staff to collect programming ideas, offering to report findings anonymously to the architects.
Modrill told council members that people she had polled expected the new branch to be in southwest Lubbock and that some residents asked for a genealogy collection and children’s books at the new site, explaining one patron’s concern about walking distance from the Mahon branch genealogy collection. She asked whether she should speak to Library Director Hannah Stewart or schedule a meeting with Park Hill Architects.
Modrill suggested Park Hill visit the Centennial Library branch in Midland as a recent example of a modern regional branch. The council did not take immediate formal action on Modrill’s requests during the meeting; staff acknowledged the comment and the meeting proceeded to consent items.
