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Maryland Company Seeks to Privatize Oceanside Library
As a resident of Oceanside I am troubled that the library keeps having its budget cut resulting in the Oceanside libraries having both less material and fewer operating hours. While I do love the staff it sounds like LSSI would both increase the amount of material available and the hours of operation. The reason libraries are hit so hard by budgets is that they are run by the city. This means that the top earning employees make both a hefty paycheck and hefty pensions when they retire. Look at Ms. Polich. She recently retired after what? 25 years? Assuming a low 2% per year pension, and taking into account her salary which probably is around 105,000-120,000 she is looking at a cool $50,000 a year. Regardless the fact that there is an employee making over 100,000 in the library and I am sometimes told that I am #22 or something on the holds list for a new release book does not sit well with me. If LSSI can increase hours increase material and do away with all the management employees earning ridiculous amounts, I would support them. At the end of the day the library is there to serve the community not the other way around.— January 23, 2012 11:39 p.m.