Renee Green, Akron City Council, Response

Saturday June 27, 2009

Will do.

(In response to the following letter:

Renee,

As an Akron resident, I request that you join your constituents in solidarity to protect our libraries. We are both proud of and well served by our libraries and I ask that you help us in defending them. I’m sure your aware that the latest draft of Ted Strickland’s state budget includes halving the state contribution to libraries, including a loss of several million dollars for the Akron-Summit County Public Library

At a time of rising unemployment we must defend these libraries where patrons use the internet to search for jobs, the free access to newspapers to skim the classifieds, and the wide assortment of technical manuals to learn new and marketable job skills.

Please join us by sending a message to our state legislators and to the governor asking that they reconsider the drastic cuts to library funding in Ohio.

http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/index.html
http://www.house.state.oh.us/
http://governor.ohio.gov/Contact/tabid/153/Default.aspx

Additionally, I request that Akron City Council join the Cleveland City Council and adopt a resolution supporting our libraries and take a follow-up trip to Columbus to express this support.)

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