Call DC City Council Members Today to Support our Public Libraries!!
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Please take 10 minutes to call the city council to support funding for our city's public libraries.
Last week, the Council's Committee on Libraries, Parks, Recreation and Planning unanimously approved its budget recommendations for fiscal year 2013. The Committee identified and recommended an additional $5.2 million for the DC Public Library, including: - $2.2 million more for the book budget (For this current year, the book budget is just $1.7 million -- 58% less than in 2008, and 50-79% less than cities of comparable size, such as Baltimore, Seattle, Boston. This very low level of funding cannot sustain our libraries.) - Additional money for opening day book collections at Northeast Library and Woodridge Library - $2 million for capital improvements at libraries awaiting renovation, such as security and ADA compliance improvements - Funding for employee training to help keep library staff on pace with emerging trends, new research, and the latest technology Did you realize that most job applications are now online and residents who lack computers with Internet access are basically out of luck if these working, connected resources are not available at their local library? Tell your personal story to your council member. Story time for your children? Finding an atlas that doesn't list the Soviet Union? How will we raise our reading scores and adult literacy without proper library resources in our community? The committee has shown a strong commitment to restoring our public library system, but the next hurdle is ensuring the entire Council votes to support these recommendations. The Council is meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss the budget. Please contact the Chairman and Councilmembers and remind them how important our public library is to ALL residents and ask them to show their commitment to lifelong learning by supporting this additional DC Public Library funding! Contacts for DC Council Members Chairman. Kwame Brown 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 504, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8032 | Fax: (202) 724-8156 Kbrown@... At-Large. David Catania 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 404, Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-7772 | Fax: (202) 724-8087 dcatania@... At-Large. Phil Mendelson 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 402, Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8064 | Fax: (202) 724-8099 pmendelson@... At-Large. Michael A. Brown 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 406, Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8105 | Fax: (202) 724-8071 mbrown@... At-Large. Vincent Orange 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 410, Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8174 | Fax: (202) 727-8210 vorange@... Ward 1. Jim Graham 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 105, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8181 | Fax: (202) 724-8109 jgraham@... Ward 2. Jack Evans 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 106, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8058 | Fax: (202) 724-8023 jevans@... Ward 3. Mary Cheh 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 108, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8062 | Fax: (202) 724-8118 Mcheh@... Ward 4. Muriel Bowser 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 110, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8052 | Fax: (202) 741-0908 mbowser@... Ward 6. Tommy Wells (Chairs the Committee on Libraries and Recreation) 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 408, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8072 | Fax: (202) 724-8054 twells@... Ward 7. Yvette Alexander 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 400, NW Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8068 | Fax: (202) 741-0911 yalexander@... Ward 8. Marion Barry 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 102, Washington, DC 20004 Tel: (202) 724-8045 | Fax: (202) 724-8055 mbarry@... Thank you!! . |