Emerald Hill Library Tuesday Evening Opening Hours - City of Port Phillip
- Target:
- City of Port Phillip Council
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- friendsofemeraldhilllibrary.org.au
The Emerald Hill Library has had its sole evening opening removed as of Tuesday 19 April 2016.
The library is now only open to 6 pm at the latest, thus reducing access for those who work. In addition various community activities are held on Tuesday evenings, such as book club meetings, author events using the community room in the library which will no longer be available, without staff being specifically assigned to open for each activity.
The loss of evening openings should not be regarded as an appropriate trade off to the welcomed increase in day time opening hours (these have increased by 4 hours so the library is open by 12 noon each day).
As the library is located in a major activity center, South Melbourne, which has experienced significant growth and is projected to continue growing.
Maintaining Tuesday evening opening is a minor cost to council, less than $16,000 per annum for two staff.
To increase the impact of your opinion, you can also write a short submission to the City of Port Phlllip's budget requesting they provide the funding, at http://haveyoursayatportphillip.net.au/council-plan-and-budget-201617-have-your-say/survey_tools/draft-council-plan-2013-17-and-draft-budget-2016-17
Also see our website: http://friendsofemeraldhilllibrary.org.au/
We, the undersigned, are concerned library users and residents, who urge City of Port Phillip Council to act now to re-instate Tuesday opening until 8:00 pm at Emerald Hill Library, without the loss of opening hours now at Emerald Hill Library or other branches of the Port Phillip Library Service.
You can further help this campaign by sponsoring it
The Emerald Hill Library Tuesday Evening Opening Hours - City of Port Phillip petition to City of Port Phillip Council was written by Michael Sabada and is in the category Local Government at GoPetition.