07/25/2026
📣 PROPOSED LIBRARY CUTS: We Need Your Voice!
📚 The Central Library, home to one of our New Leaf Café locations, is facing potential service reductions due to a projected funding shortfall in 2027. Depending on the funding outcome, proposed reductions could include Monday closures at the Central Library, reduced operating hours, and other service cuts. These changes would not only affect library patrons but would also reduce customer traffic and sales at New Leaf Café, limiting both earned revenue and workforce development opportunities for our program participants.
More broadly, the library is a critical community resource that serves thousands of Spokane residents through access to technology, educational programming, meeting spaces, and outreach services. The proposed cuts would have ripple effects throughout our community and among organizations that rely on the library as a partner.
We see this as an opportunity for advocacy. The Spokane Public Library is encouraging community members and partners to contact their City Council representative and Mayor Lisa Brown to express support for fully funding the library's budget needs. The library also asks supporters to copy [email protected] and [email protected] on their messages. According to the library, securing the requested funding is necessary to avoid significant service reductions.
👉 Learn more about what that could look like and what you can do to help here: https://www.spokanelibrary.org/outlining-potential.../