RAD board sets goals for audit of city library system
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The Allegheny Regional Asset District Board today issued its goals in seeking bids from auditors to analyze the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's economic reasons to close five branch libraries next year.
Included in goals are:
• An assessment of the "reasonableness" of the library's financial projections.
• A determination of how much the library will save "by each branch closing, consolidation."
• An evaluation of "whether realistic alternatives were considered by library management/trustees."
• An evaluation of the criteria "for the changes in the branch operations as well as the application of those criteria to branches impacted by the closings."
• A comparison of budgets and business practices with "similarly sized and organized libraries . . . "
In turn, the library agreed to provide RAD with specifics behind the decisions to close and merge those branches.
The RAD board last week agreed to review the library's financial operations after it announced Oct. 5 that it needed to make cutbacks based on financial projections. The library announced the moves shortly after RAD approved a $17.6 million allocation for next year, the same amount it's giving the library this year.
Read more in tomorrow's Post-Gazette.
First Published October 27, 2009 12:30 pm
