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Subject: Public Comment Item 14 & 30, Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Date: Sunday, May 5, 2024 11:08:00 PM
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Tráthnóna maith City Council - Ben Pickens
here, HB resident
I support Item 14 - Monthly Update of
Activities for - Community & Library Services
Commission - Meeting Date: 4/10/24:
The results are in favor of Huntington Central
Library.
44 against the implementation of a
Parent/Guardian Review Board, & 10 in favor;
66 were against the Privatization RFP process,
while 5 were in favor; 2 comments were
undecided or opinion was unclear.
This
document pales in comparison to the
overwhelming majority of residents in
support of Huntington Central Library.
I support Item 30 - Vote of the People to
Privatize/Outsource (Charter Amendment) &
Postpone/Terminate RFP Process Until After
5/7/2024
14 (24-323)
Vote:
Surely millions of HB residents have long
been dependent on their groundbreaking
research at Central Library. Not having such a
vote & postponement/termination, is not a
protocol that is in accordance with the wishes
of the constituency. Selling libraries to library
companies is an absolute stupid idea from
totalitarian developers; at such an important
time for research, this is tyranny. These
developers are terrified of people researching
in libraries. A library company is nothing
more than a political scheme that makes it easy
for an executive to end the print of all
paperback & hardcover books via digitization
& exploit all paper to other countries, this will
indeed be a mere computer lab. The books in
question have identifiable, social
disinformation in them & should have been
thrown into the adult section, & be done with
it. I think members of the city council &
elected city clerk are at fault for not requesting
this. Be mindful that misdirecting for private
gain is graft. It is better to seek improvement
to the library operations, if funds truly must be
saved, not by selling it. I think the idea to sell
is being rushed by private interests as a faint
against the city. The details of Central Library
have not at all, ever been adequately discussed,
in conjunction with the overwhelming
resident feedback that would occur, to make
such a stupid sale. And I think selling has
been propagandized & snuck in, which does
not serve the purpose of the functions of city
council. This is a great misuse of civic
representation.
The Huntington Central Library is also an
epicenter for space travel research; there is a
eugenicist phobia against this, from private
interests, & an obsession to ban/censor &
conspiracize this; instead of the government
banning fraudulent products.
Source: Google
Sincerely, Ben Pickens