Mount Baker resident Shirley Wilcox 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 and are confirmed by the City Council.
Now retired, Wilcox taught kindergarten for 20 years in the Seattle Public Schools. An avid community volunteer, Wilcox was a founding board member of Neighborhood House and of the Central Area Mental Health Center. She also has served on the boards of United Way of King County, the Association of King County Historical Organizations, and Catholic Community Services. In 1965, she chaired the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority-sponsored African-American Collection at the Douglass-Truth Library.
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. For more information, visit the Library's Web site at www.spl.org and select "Libraries for All capital projects."
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, Library communications assistant, 206-615-1627.)
PLEASE NOTE: The existing Central Library at 1000 Fourth Ave. will close for good at 6 p.m. Friday, June 8 to allow books and equipment to be moved to the Temporary Central Library at 800 Pike St. The temporary facility is expected to open at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 7.
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