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Resident presses county over library budget, executive director pay and district autonomy
Summary
During public comment, Trish O'Grady asked the commissioners to reclaim oversight of the Garfield County library budget, raised concerns about a proposed executive director pay increase and questioned the library district’s high per-capita spending and reserve funds.
Trish O’Grady, a local resident, used the public-comment period to press Garfield County commissioners on the library district’s budget, executive compensation and governance.
O’Grady said she had reviewed library financials on the Library Research Service (LRS) website and cited what she described as unusually high spending. She told the board that Garfield County Public Library’s annual operating revenue looked large relative to similarly sized systems and said the library’s operating expenditures per capita put the system among the state’s higher-spending…
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