November 12

Fremont Public Library hours get cut

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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.


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