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Commission probes budget increase and reliance on hourly staff after LCS merger
Summary
Commissioners sought explanations for large department-level spending increases and a decline in library-coded FTEs after the Library & Community Services department merger; staff said shared admin accounting and increased hourly staffing for new facilities drive the changes, and the Commission requested comparative pre-pandemic figures.
The Menlo Park Library Commission spent a substantive portion of its March 16 meeting on a financial overview and staffing questions after staff presented a multi-year budget view and FTE counts.
Staff advised that part of the apparent discrepancy stems from the 2021 merger of library and community services budgets, which shifted some administrative positions out of library-coded accounts while expanding services at new facilities such as the Belle Haven campus. That change, combined with higher operating needs for the new building, produced a…
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