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The first YouTube livestreamed MPL TRUSTee meeting occurred Tues. Oct 20. It is archived and accessible on the Marshalltown YouTube channel. Watching it will reveal the hostile TRUSTee's silent refusal to account for their recent and ongoing policy deviation. The silence tool was employed to deviate from policy procedure concerning the offer of a free subscription to a Spanish language newspaper of MPLs choice. Evidently, a stipulation that The Epoch Times had to be displayed next to it was too much to bear. TRUSTees win; patrons lose. That offer wasn't the only rejected compromise. Had MPL not slow walked patrons' access to meetings, patrons could have seen and heard references to civil patrons as "idiotic" by attorney P.G. "Uneducated" by then Friends group pres. J.H. "Height of stupidity" by M.L. Missed also was a yelling outburst by councilman M.L. Patrons were targeted for not accepting corrupt board/staff actions while TRUSTees failed to maintain decorum. Add accusations of "loser" and "pain in the neck" by former mayor Greer, who appointed the politicized TRUSTees 6 dems to 1 independant, "problem patron" and "a 75 old" in public record by former MPL director Rosenblum. Except for Rosenblum, who was not held accountable for orchestrating the corruption in the late 2022 meetings, all of the accusers refuse invitations to hear detailed accounts of what transpired from those who actually attended the meetings. Unfortunately, blunt exposure is the only tool available to patrons to deal with an extensive library industry and boosters. If you think that the Carnegie Foundation would acknowledge censorship BY a library, FROM a patron, think again. Evidently without research, they included MPL in their $10,000 giveaway not long ago More than 200 patrons have petitioned for inclusion of The Epic Times and The American Rifleman at no cost to the collection. Compromises neither considered nor offered. When asked to produce a petition requesting material currently in the collection, the silence tool is deployed. " The Library will not reject materials which are requested by patrons or suggested by standard review sources because of the point of view or ideas they reflect, if they meet other elements of the collection development policy." MPL uses "other elements" to reject "the point of view or ideas"
If the current trustees refuse to resign, they must be removed and replaced with a balanced board. Balance could have easily been achieved had Greer appointed known applicants to replace four recent resignations.