One May 24, 2008 the Board of Trustees of Peoria Public Library appeared at City Council to give a presentation and answer questions about the building program and site selection process outcomes for the Capital Plan to be funded by $35 million in bonds. The bonds were approved by the citizens of Peoria during an advisory referendum on April 17, 2007 by a 72% yes vote, the largest positive library vote in the history of Illinois referendums.
The Peoria City Council provided a list of 49 questions to the Library Board asking that they appear again on June 10. The written answers provided below were supplied to the City Council on Friday, June 8. At the June 10 meeting, several more questions were asked and those answers are provided below as well.
At the June 24, 2008 meeting of City Council, $28 million in bonds were issued with instructions that the library board was to use their best judgement to carry out a plan for city-wide library service.
