“The Fiscal Year 2011 proposed cuts would have a dramatic effect on library services: + Elimination of 736 full-time equivalent positions [a breakout of the types of positions that lead to the 736 total is not provided] + Consideration of the closure of up to 10 neighborhood branches; + Public service hours would be decimated at the remaining branches, brought down to an average of four days per week, down from our current six to seven days service; + The impact of a cut of this magnitude would be tremendous: + 5.7 million fewer items will be circulated (1.7 million to children); + 346,000 fewer visits to library programs by young people; + 1.8 million fewer visits by children to the Library; + 13,200 fewer slots available to attend our career counseling and job classes; + 2 million fewer computer sessions, and severely reduced access to seniors, who often use the library in the morning.*** Many of these morning hours will be cut; + 1.1 million fewer visits and 1.3 million fewer... - × × ×