“Now I’m looking at the budget approved by the Santa Ana City Council for the fiscal year starting July 1st, and it looks like the axe just kept chopping away. The department will be merged into the Parks and Recreation Department, music CDs will be 50 cents for each checkout, adult funding will be reduced 24%, children funding will be reduced 40%, adult material acquisitions will be slashed from an already low 5,400 items to a paltry 2,200 new items…and on and on…,” according to the Brix and Trix blog.
And you wonder why Santa Ana is number one in violent crime in Orange County?
Maybe the library dept should share in the cash saving that parks and rec is enjoying with the dropping of the leased headquarters at Flower and Santa Ana Blvd.
A saving of $4,500 a month I was told, and where did the high-brows of parks and rec go? They took over second floor library board room.
To beat the July 1st price increases I been to the library every other day for the last 3 weeks and the library has been packed.
The 1st Friday of the month campfire will be held at the New nature center 7-3 from 7:30pm on.