MY TURN: CLN needs competent trustees
In a letter to the editor published Sept. 22, Suzanne Kearney blamed the prior board of trustees for the Community Library Network’s current budget deficit, alleging — without evidence — that they created a $200,000 shortfall. Kearney then points to this predicament to justify the dramatic and drastic cuts the current CLN trustees have made to employee positions, hours and acquisitions. This narrative is false and represents simply another attempt to turn Meyer and McCrea into proverbial political scapegoats.
The facts to counter Kearney’s misrepresentation are publicly available and easily verifiable on CLN’s website: https://communitylibrary.net/board/. At the end of the 2023 fiscal year (covering 10/1/22 to 9/30/23), the district did not have a budget deficit or shortfall. In fact, the opposite is true. Revenues exceeded expenses by $16,376.32. Perhaps then, Kearney meant to reference the FY24 budget, which, like all annual budgets, would be formulated by the public agency over the summer months and then adopted after a public budget hearing historically held during the month of August.
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