A few weeks ago Napier City Council was touting that they could not afford to continue to run the City Library.
Today this appears in Hawkes Bay Today!!!
Here is a link to the full Hawkes Bay Today article.
Mind blowing – I am glad that I am not a Napier ratepayer.
Apologies for the two links but I could not get the first one to just show the photo and the headline. As a bonus you get the facebook comments with it.
No Minister 
Apart from the cost, we have this:
“We’ve taken a careful, community-first approach throughout, starting with collaboration with mana whenua and library users.”
Always interesting to see to see who comes first in the community.
Dave Lenny