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Supervisors approve library procurement as competition‑impracticable; public calls for vendor safeguards and donation transparency
Summary
The board approved a procurement for the library system described by staff as "competition impracticable" and accepted library donations; public commenters asked for written vendor justifications, service guarantees, privacy protections and a donations dashboard.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved item 113 (procurement for library modernization described as competition‑impracticable) and item 114 (library donations) after public comment requesting stronger procurement justification and donations transparency.
Leslie Shepherd, who filed speaker forms for both items, asked the county to require written justifications comparing potential vendors, strict service‑level guarantees and uptime, cybersecurity and patron‑privacy standards, price protection and an exit clause to avoid vendor…
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