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RESOWTION NO. 2- 71
A RESOLUTION of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, directing
the Mayor of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, to advise
all appropriate state, county and municipal officials that
the City of Port Angeles believes that the strengthening of
libraries through adequate financial support and through
cooperative ventures to improve library service should
continue to be the responsibility of all levels of govern-
ment.
WHEREAS, the report to the Washington State Legislature by the
Subc ittee on Educational Television and Libraries of the Joint Committee
on hcation,,, Libraries in Washington ", dated December 14, 1970, contains
on pJbes 55-56 a proposed act relating to libraries and the creation of a
statJ1[ide public library system, and
WHEREAS., it is widely recognized that local support for govern-
mental services is an ideal to be achieved, and that municipal libraries of
washJngton do enjoy a high level of support, and that regional administration
tendJ to erode local support and responsibility, and that changing State Law
to cJnsolidate municipal libraries by placing all libraries under the juris-
dictr! n of a regional sy.t.., would thereby cause the citizen. of the City
of P t Angeles, Washington, to lose their interest in and their control of
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a va , able JIIunicipal institution;
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NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES,
GTON, IN A REGULAR MEETING, DULY ASSEMBLED, DO HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
'EHAT the Mayor of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, advise all
appropriate State, County, and Municipal officials of the need to include in
any JegiSlation mandating a statewide public library system provisions to
protJct the independence of, financial support for, and local control of mu-
nici~al libraries, and
J THAT the City of Port Angeles believes that the strengthening of
libr.ries through adequate financial support and through cooperative ventures
to ;Jprove library service should continue to be the responsibility of all
lev:~s of government.
DATED AND SIGNED this 5th day of January, 1971.
CITY OF PORT ANGELES
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