Politics & Government
County Board to Vote on Keeping Libraries Closed Sundays and Mondays
The Washington County Library Board is proposing the new schedule to cut costs.
The Washington County Board is set to vote Tuesday on keeping all county libraries—including Woodbury's—closed on Sundays and Mondays starting in 2012.
The cost-cutting measure, , would allow the library system to eliminate .
The library system when the Lake Elmo City Council voted in June to pull out of the county library system and run its library at the city level.
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Both the and libraries are currently open on Sundays and Mondays. (See the photo section of this article for the proposed hours at all of the county’s libraries.)
At its Tuesday, Nov. 22 meeting, which begins at 9 a.m., the board is also scheduled to consider the following items:
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- Entering into a grant agreement to develop facilities that accommodate evening cross country skiing at the Lake Elmo Park Reserve.
- Selecting a consultant to find internal candidates to fill the position of retiring County Administrator Jim Schug.
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