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Advisory board outlines library safety and technology priorities, fundraising to follow city approval
Summary
Board and staff reviewed the library’s top three priorities—safety, patron-facing technology, and outside funding—emphasizing that device procurement requires IT approval and that fundraising should be coordinated and transparent.
Board members and staff discussed the library’s top three priorities: safety, improved patron-facing technology, and securing outside funding to support services. Staff described drafts for safety protocols and a technology refresh; members encouraged clear metrics and alignment with prior community-survey findings for programming priorities like seniors and teen services.
"This is not a request to get devices donated. We have to go through IT's approval process of them," the Chair said, emphasizing that donated equipment or purchases would need to meet city IT standards. Members agreed the board and Friends of the Library could play a role in fundraising for specific items, but that the board must be transparent about what fundraising covers versus routine city operating costs.
