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City of Lake Elmo Washington County, •' : ,r RESOLUTION NO 2010-030 A RESOLUTION CALLING OR PRESERVATION AND O LIBRARY SERVICES 'i COMM-UNITY OF LAKE ELMO WHEREAS, the Rosalie E. Wahl branch library of the Washington County Library System has been an integral part of the Lake Elmo community for many years; and VMEREAS, the Rosalie E. Wahl branch library, has previously been closed for several years, much to the detriment of the Lake Elmo community; and WHEREAS, significant time, effort, and resources went into the reopening of the Rosalie E. Wahl branch library by Washington County, the Washington County Library Board, the City of Lake Elmo, the Lake Elmo community and the Friends of the Lake Elmo Library; and VMERliAS, current library services are considered by the City of Lake Elmo and the Lake Elmo community as inadequate, though currently meeting minimum standards for the Washington County Library and the State of Minnesota; and WHEREAS, in spring 2010 the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo requested mutual consideration by Washington County and the Washington County Library Board of either expansion of existing library hours and days of service or reconfiguration of existing library hours and days of service, to include Saturday service; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo publically acknowledged at that time the necessity of possibly relying upon utilization of volunteers, reassignment of paid staff among various Washington County Library facilities, and/or potential resource augmentation by the City of Lake Elmo for additional staffing hours; and WHEREAS, the Washington County Library Board unilaterally rejected the City of Lake Elmo's request and, subsequent to this action, has given strong indication through its Administration that the Rosalie E. Wahl branch library of Washington County Library System is likely to suffer additional service cutbacks and /or closure due to current budgetary and service considerations; and WHEREAS, the City and Community of Lake Elmo and the Washington County Library Board envision through their respective strategic planning efforts a growing need for provision of library services as Lake Elmo and the surrounding communities continue to increase in population over the next twenty years, to likely include a new or expanded library facility in this general area, though likely differ as to current and interim operation of such facility, as well as ultimate location of such future facility; and VVHE4 AS, the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo believes interruption of library services during this interim period is not only short- sighted but detrimental to the long -tern development of both a.