West Seattle resident Dennis Ross has joined the Citizen Implementation Review Panel (CIRP), which is responsible for providing citizen oversight of Seattle Public Library's "Libraries for All" building program.
The 15-member panel meets monthly to monitor and provide feedback on implementation of the voter-approved "Libraries for All" program. CIRP volunteers are appointed to staggered three-year terms by the Seattle Public Library board of trustees and the City Neighborhood Council (CNC) and are confirmed by the City Council.
Ross is president of the Admiral Community Council and served as chairman of the Southwest District Council in 1998 and 2000. He is the Southwest District Council delegate to the CNC, and in 1999 served as CNC vice chairman. Ross, who works in the warehouse division of Fittings Inc., replaces a member whose term expires June 1, 2003.
Seattle voters passed the $196.4 million "Libraries for All" bond measure in 1998. The plan calls for improving or replacing all 22 branch libraries, building five new branches and building a new central library.
The Seattle Public Library Foundation is in the midst of a "Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries" with the goal of raising $75 million from private sources to enhance the public bond commitment. Every dollar raised will ensure the library system reflects our community's needs in buildings, books, technology and people, long into the future.
For more information about "Libraries for All" or the Foundation, visit the Library's Web site at www.spl.org.
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, Library communications assistant, 206-615-1627.)
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