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Library director seeks boost to restore realistic operating funding, flags accounting issues
Summary
New library director Daryl told the council the Oshkosh Public Library's 2025 request reflects previously underbudgeted utilities, personnel and materials; finance staff and the director said prior use of restricted funds and a special-revenue fund drawdown masked actual costs and prompted a recommendation for a third-party financial review.
The Oshkosh Public Library director urged the Common Council to consider a significant increase to city support for 2025 after a review showed years of underfunding in operating lines and a drawdown of library fund balances.
Daryl, the library director, framed the request as an effort to present a truthful, sustainable budget: "The budget I've submitted is based first of all on the real spending done by my department in the past ... and trying to project it forward as intelligently as I can," he told the council.
Why it matters: library leaders and finance staff said the library's levy allocation had remained largely flat for more than a decade while utilities,…
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