Board Agrees To Keep Regina Branches, Gallery Open

摘要

The six-month fight to keep the Regina Public Library (RPL), SK, intact has led to a truce, though four of the library's nine board members resigned when the city council refused to approve their plan for a sustainable system by closing three of nine branches, the Dunlpp Art Gallery, and the Prairie History Room. Mayor Pat Fiacco had initially supported the closures but was swayed by the public outcry, including a petition that garnered 26,048 signatures, -well over the 17,823 required (ten percent of the city's population) to support a referendum to increase library funds. (The library union also opposed cuts.) The city council and courts have rejected the referendum.