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Library workers urge Beaverton council to question layoffs, spotlight police spending share
Summary
SEIU-represented library staff told the council they expect proposed layoffs in the coming draft budget and urged elected officials to scrutinize management-to-staff ratios and the size of the police share of the general fund.
Several Beaverton library employees and union representatives spoke at the council’s visitor-comment period on April 15, urging councilors to scrutinize the city’s preliminary budget and to avoid layoffs for represented staff.
Nicole Langley Peralta, who identified herself as a librarian and president of SEIU 503 sub-local 198, told council members the union has “good reason to believe [the draft budget] will propose a layoff.” She urged councilors to examine the draft carefully when it becomes public and to “ask questions and think critically about what is being proposed.”
“I have three examples,” Langley Peralta said. She cited city financial figures she said show revenues outpacing expenditures from 2020 to 2024, a persistent ending fund balance, and a…
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