$600,000 for Code Compliance is Cut from Brown County Public Library

Brown County Public Library

Link to November 3 Green Bay Press-Gazette article, "$600K for Brown County Library cut from Brown County budget.  Funds needed to bring infrastructure up to code, director says".

Excerpt: The $600,000 that the Library Board requested for an architectural design change that would fix what is broken or outdated and to redesign the facility has already been discarded by County Executive Tom Hinz and Board Chairman Guy Zima.

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Library Director Lynn Stainbrook said the cut is disappointing.

"The library has so many needs," she said. "It has code violation after code violation after code violation. I'm amazed we haven't had anybody with disability issues complain at this point. But we've done our due diligence and let them (supervisors) know. Now what are they going to do?"

Nearly 1 million people come into the Central Library every year, more than any other county-owned building, she said.

Stainbrook said much of the library's infrastructure — heating and ventilating, lighting, electrical wiring, elevators and windows — doesn't meet current code.