There’s only five more hours to sign the petition the Friends of The Seattle Public Library has been working on to stop the city from cutting back funding and hours that would in affect close down 21 neighborhood branches around the city on Fridays and Sundays.
The group needs 318 more signatures by the end of tonight so that they can have the issue put on the City Council budget for the first meeting in November. Sign the petition on their Facebook page. You also can get involved by writing an email. Advocacy Chair Sarel Rowe wrote,
For neighbors who don’t have Facebook we’re still running another challenge that will be active through the first week of November. We need 500 emails to council in their budget@seattle.gov box. Right now we have 107. If you could support that goal we’d appreciate it. The email can be short: subject line-restore branch library hours. text-My name is ____. I use the ____ library. Please restore branch library hours.
Read more about the issue here.
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1 jennifer_johnson_fong // Oct 26, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Thank you Queen Anne View for helping us get those final numbers on the Facebook Petition. Just returned from testifying at the last public hearing at City Council. Lots of fantastic testimony on behalf of The Seattle Public Library and in support of restoring branch hours. Updates about the testimonies are going up on the Friends blog at http://www.friendsofspl.wordpress.com
Thank you Queen Anne neighbors and Queen Anne branch patrons for all the support.
Jennifer Johnson-Fong, QNA resident and VP of Friends of SPL
2 Allen // Oct 26, 2009 at 9:11 pm
God blesses, wish everything goes well.
3 jennifer_johnson_fong // Oct 27, 2009 at 3:57 am
Thank you Queen Anne View for helping us get those final numbers on the Facebook Petition. Just returned from testifying at the last public hearing at City Council. Lots of fantastic testimony on behalf of The Seattle Public Library and in support of restoring branch hours. Updates about the testimonies are going up on the Friends blog at http://www.friendsofspl.wordpress.com
Thank you Queen Anne neighbors and Queen Anne branch patrons for all the support.
Jennifer Johnson-Fong, QNA resident and VP of Friends of SPL
4 Allen // Oct 27, 2009 at 4:11 am
God blesses, wish everything goes well.