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I do not work at the Downtown branch but I am a library worker and a citizen troubled by the recent architect’s presentation of what a remodel would do for our Downtown Library.

Dealing with the limited funding for such a project, the architect did his best in working around this, but admitted that such a remodel of the building vastly decreases the current services and collections now provided by that branch. He demonstrated ways the bare bone plans could be improved through additions if more funds could be raised, but these “add-ons” were aesthetic at best and would not provide the current level of collections or programs, nor allow for environmental improvements in the future.

In a mixed use building, we have an opportunity to build a modern and green library with more programs and larger collection. A remodel will only build a shell of a library.

— Kevin Hildreth, Santa Cruz

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