Huntington Beach Moves Forward With Outsourcing The City’s Public Library Operations

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California is their biggest market, he told LAist, including Riverside County, Moreno Valley, Escondido, Simi Valley, and Palmdale. Ronning told LAist the library has a lot of young employees that are the sole providers for their households, paying off student loans, and relying on the city insurance. She worries that those benefits will disappear if the library is managed by a private company.

Carol Daus, a Huntington Beach resident and volunteer with the Friends of the Huntington Beach Public Library, told LAist that many of their nearly 1,000 volunteers will stop donating their time — and money. “So if they make minor cuts in our library, that won't even go back to the library,” she said. “We will be left with a hollowed out library that just resembles some corporate hub of a for-profit, private company without any transparency.”Councilmember Dan Kalmick said the city has a major transparency issue, and he’s not sure how the request for proposals even ended up on the agenda.

“Libraries are one of the last places in this country, in the world, in society where you're not expected to spend money to be there,” Kalmick said. “To take something that literally gives things away for free, and try to make a profit doing that. Like, where does that come from?”

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