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MY TURN: Reckless CLN trustee actions

by PAT RAFFEE/Guest opinion
| December 6, 2023 1:00 AM

Risk from actions of the board majority of the Community Library Network continue to rise. Trustees Ottosen, Plass and Hanley are adding liability and eroding CLN’s safeguards; they are actively harming the library network. In just six months they’ve violated agreements, cut funding while increasing expenses, disregarded legal advice, and tried to demoralize staff.

Recently they revised a policy on Materials Selection that was only a year old.  They created a separate Materials Withdrawal policy.  The board majority rushed to approve these despite one trustee’s caution, another trustee’s absence, and no legal advice. The board majority was unwilling to even listen to staff reservations about implementation.   

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