SUPPLEMENTAL SPECIAL MEETING (5:00 PM)

Qy�ASAiyTo�G n y O�PL'INNED f� V Full Name City Council Regular Submit your written comment City of Pleasanton Email (this entry is disclosable if included) City Council Meeting Date Meeting Type Agenda Item Number Comments Meeting - public First Name: Sue Last Name: Jones rhappydogs@outlook. corn Submitted On: April 08, 2025 10:29 AM Special Meeting at 5:00 pm 2 To the Pleasanton Mayor & City Council, Apr 7, 2025, 11:25AM PDT My name is Sue Jones. I am a retired library employee of the Pleasanton Library. I was there during its transition from an Alameda County branch library to a magnificent City library. I created the Paws to Read program which connected the library to Pleasanton schools and then versions of our own program literally went global. I was incredibly disheartened to learn of the draconian cuts being proposed to what was once the crown jewel of the city. I cannot understand why it is being proposed at this time of extreme uncertainty of resources & funding for the public due to current federal policies. I still remember a couple who came in with their sick baby, trying to use our medical texts for a diagnosis because they could not afford a doctor. V\L- were able to connect them to free medical services. The man who came to us, was trying to learn to fix his own truck, unable to afford auto repair. The nuclear physicist, new to this country and dressed in a three- piece suit, seeking job opportunities. And the woman who had hidden the fact that she could not read during her entire life, searching for literacy help because her own children were now asking her for homework help. I could go on with a thousand stories. Everyone in the library has seen what a library means to the community. First, there has to BE resources available... books, data bases, librarians trained to navigate the trillion bits of information out there down to the most useful for their patron. This is MOST important during times when people are losing jobs,