Axing the mobile library stops in Suffolk Park, Ocean Shores and Federal, suggested in a Council staff report, is just one suggestion to achieve budget savings of $65,500.
The report, to be tabled by councillors at the upcoming September 19 meeting, includes other cost-saving measures such as decreasing opening hours by one hour in all three library branches, Monday to Friday, and reducing the resources purchasing allocation by $7,903.
The report says the estimated saving for the mobile library would be $12,022 after a new timetable was established and that ‘Due to low use in Federal and the close proximity to branch libraries in both Suffolk Park and Ocean Shores, cancelling these three stops will have less impact on the community members than closing Brunswick Heads one afternoon a week’.
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