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Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries board removes 'equitable' from plan, adds parents-rights language
Summary
At a March 11 La Center council work session, Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries staff described a newly adopted 2026–2030 strategic plan and explained that trustees removed the word “equitable” from mission/priorities and added language honoring parents’ primary role; staff said they worry the edits could presage restrictive policy changes to collections and access.
Jennifer Gueltrup, executive director of the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries, told the La Center City Council on March 11 that the library district’s board formally adopted a five-year strategic plan but made last-minute edits that removed the adjective “equitable” from mission and priority language and added a sentence saying policy should be applied “in a manner that honors the primary role of parents and guardians.”
Gueltrup said the board first approved the strategic-plan language in January and ratified corrected text again in February and that those floor amendments, which were handed out during the January meeting, produced confusion among trustees and the public. “The word equitable…was among debate from November forward,” she said, and the final phrasing…
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