Gov. Linda Lingle yesterday criticized state Librarian Virginia Lowell for failing to come up with ways to keep libraries open longer than 40 hours a week in the face of statewide budget cuts. The Lingle administration has ordered all state agencies to trim their budgets by as much as 5 percent in the face of less-than-stellar increases in revenues and her desire to forgo the use of $175 million in the Hawai\’i Hurricane Relief Fund. Sen. Bob Hogue Called for Lowell\’s resignation.
\”While community input is important, it\’s not the deciding factor of what days to close,\” she said at the time. \”It\’s finances that\’s driving the plan here. The real solution here is to put pressure on the lawmakers to adequately fund the library system.\”
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