Amendment to Amendment — VPL and ACCS Investments

Summary

• Proposed replacing the two Vancouver Public Library funding items (staff training position and materials-handling conversion) with a larger $445,000 package including three social worker/community outreach positions and expanded branch hours, and increasing Anti-Racism and Cultural Redress funding in ACCS from a staff reallocation to $492,000 in new spending.
• Supporters argued the changes would better address the mental health and service demand pressures facing library staff and communities.
• Opponents preferred the original amendment's more modest and targeted investments.

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