If the Library District is approved, the Parkdale and Cascade Locks library branches will stay open along with the main library in downtown Hood River.
The tax money collected by the Library District will all go toward maintaining the library. None of it will be available to the county for other purposes.
The Library Board positions are unpaid. They are five volunteer positions with no compensation attached.
If the Library District is not approved, there will be no “rescue” of the library by some other governmental or private entity. The three branches will close. The staff will move on. The county will attempt to do something else with the property.
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How are the libraries adapting to meet this situation? Is it all about raising the funds to keep all unchanged? Are compromises being made?
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The library has been adapting to the county's increasingly bad financial situation for the past decade in that they haven't had the staff they need or enough money to keep the book collection current. This year the entire staff is part-time with no benefits and the book budget is zero. As of July 1, there will be no more money from the county at all. No more compromises to be made. So it's more a matter of raising funds to continue existing. The library district vote is a simple up or down: yes means we have a library; no means we don't.
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