Library board discusses how to balance budget amid state spending cuts

YOUNGSTOWN — Thanks largely to tough economic times, the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County is trying to figure out ways to maintain sustainability and plan for the future while having to balance a sharp decline in state revenues with increased usage.

That was at the heart of a three-hour planning session today by members of the library system’s board of trustees, who also revisited the system’s strategic plan.

Addressing the challenge was Bill Wilson of Himmel & Wilson Library Consultants, a Milton, Wis.-based independent consulting firm, who was brought in partly to look at how the library has fulfilled obligations outlined in the plan.

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