There’s good news and there’s bad news regarding Seattle Public Libraries today. Our news partner, The Seattle Times, is reporting that that the Seattle City Council budget committee restored $863,000, from a proposed $2.8 million cut, to the 2010 public libraries budget. That means 11 library branches and the Central Library downtown will get to remain open 7 days a week. However, the Fremont Public Library and 14 other branches did not dodge the bullet. Those 15 libraries will go down to a 5-day-week schedule beginning in the new year.
Currently the Fremont Library is open 50 hours a week for 6 days. The new changes means it will only be open for 35 hours a week and 5 days. The new hours will look like this:
Monday and Tuesday: 1-8pm (unchanged)
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday: 11am-6pm (currently 10am-8pm W-Th, 10am-6pm Sat)
Friday and Sunday: Closed
You can read more about the City Council’s latest decision here.