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LETTER: Correspondence from library CEO raises issue

Reader questions why CEO of library was allowed to access personal contact information of patrons for 'biased emails during a labour dispute'
2019-04-22 BWGLibrary

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Who knew that the CEO of a public institution (i.e. BWG Public Library) is allowed to access personal contact information of patrons at all, let alone use it to send out biased emails during a labour dispute? 

I don’t recall receiving any emails from the BWG Library CEO explaining his wage increases of the last three years and how they were going to affect my property tax rate.

Neither do I recall seeing his masked face outside the doors of the library, cheerfully greeting me in all kinds of weather during the pandemic lockdowns, ready with whatever materials I had requested. Service actually given by people who (who knew!?) hadn’t had a pay raise in nine years!

In a few years, our town is projected to have six times more people than it did when I arrived here. How would the development fees deferred by the previous, for all intents and purposes current Town Council have offset the cost of a decent rate of pay for the workers at the only cultural facility open to everyone in our town?

J.L. Evans
Bradford