Public outrage at the ill-conceived changes by the Fairfax County library system have happily caused the library’s Board of Trustees to put that “strategic plan” on hold. That time-honored resort of authorities under pressure — an ad hoc committee — has now been proposed.
But what can we expect now? The library budget declined dramatically from 2007 to 2012. With the second-richest county in the country increasing its expenditures, library spending now represents 0.7 percent of total Fairfax County expenditures. This starving of funds for the library is what is at the heart of the problem.
Only if the county Board of Supervisors takes steps to put expenditures back to where they were in 2007 will it be possible to put things right.
John Hanley, Reston
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