{"id":2929,"date":"2011-03-10T21:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:49:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:49:35","slug":"a-response-from-a-fairfax-county-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"A Response from a Fairfax County Supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2785\">open letter to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors<\/a>, as well as mailing them a letter and a signed copy of the book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/overdue.html\">This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All<\/a><\/em>, by Marilyn Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received a response!  Jeffrey McKay, the Lee District Supervisor, sent me the following letter:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ms. Eklund:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to write in support of our Fairfax County library system and also for the signed copy of <em>This Book is Overdue!  How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I appreciated the passages you marked, along with the thoughtful points you make about the value of libraries.  Because last year, the budget cuts to our library system were so large, I was very pleased to see that the County Executive spared the libraries this year.  While it&#8217;s too early to know what the final budget will be, I will be considering your common sense observations about the value of libraries in my deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey C. McKay<br \/>\nLee District Supervisor<\/p>\n<p>p.s.  I am very glad that you were able to rejoin the library system in November.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to admit &#8212; that&#8217;s a nice letter to receive.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, it&#8217;s a politician&#8217;s letter.  Notice that he definitely does not make any promises about trying to restore library funds.<\/p>\n<p>But I do feel like he&#8217;s considered what I had to say, and that&#8217;s really what I was after.  Times are still hard, and I do realize that coming up with the county budget is a huge task with hard choices.  I hope they will at least be thinking about ways to restore library funding.  It&#8217;s nice to learn that the point I was trying to make was at least heard.<\/p>\n<p>And I really do appreciate such a friendly response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted an open letter to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, as well as mailing them a letter and a signed copy of the book, This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, by Marilyn Johnson. Today I received a response! Jeffrey McKay, the Lee District Supervisor, sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}