O'Brien County Board of Supervisors will temporarily not fund the Archer Public Library while it remains closed for the winter. | Pixabay
O'Brien County Board of Supervisors will temporarily not fund the Archer Public Library while it remains closed for the winter. | Pixabay
O'Brien County Board of Supervisors will temporarily not fund the Archer Public Library while it remains closed for the winter.
“Nothing is 100%, what they’re going to do yet,” board member Nancy McDowell told NwestIowa.com after speaking with county attorney Rachael Becker. “I kind of implied that we probably wouldn’t pay them if they didn’t have a functioning library.”
The board said it will pay the library for the first three months of the fiscal year (July through September), but will not fund the library until it reopens.
During the meeting, board member Dennis Vanden Hull asked if there was another location the library could temporarily set up during the winter.
“They have to find out: Do they move the library elsewhere? It sounds like they’re going to have to probably load the books up and move them anyway for storage so they don’t get ruined,” McDowell told NwestIowa.com.
The board is also looking at options to reapportion Archer's funds to another library in the county, while Archer remains closed, but since there is no code for this, the board could run into a problem.
Vanden Hull said the board should just hold onto the library's money while it remains closed.
“This way, everything’s nice and even,” he told NwestIowa.com.
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