What a difference a year can make. After being on the verge of financial disaster the Kent County Public Library’s audit for Fiscal Year 2011 reveals that all is well.
“Fiscal Year 2011 has had a lot of positive results,” said Library Board President Alice Ritchie. “We think the success has had to come at some cost to the public because we’ve had to reduce our service to the public by closing the library on certain days, we’ve bought less media and books, and we worked without an executive director for part of the year.”
She said the goals for FY2012 include celebrating the library’s 50th anniversary and buying more books and materials.
“We’re very proud of the library and I think the community is very proud of our library too,” she said.
Commissioner Ron Fithian praised the board for their hard work and how quickly they turned the library around.
Ritchie thanked him, but pointed out that the old board was in place for half of FY2011 “and they really set a bunch of measurements in place to help us toward financial health.”
The county also received the results back from its FY2011 audit and the county is in good financial shape.
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