Community Library Network trustees unanimously approved accepting $42,256.90 in urban renewal district funds during a special meeting Friday at the Post Falls Library.
At the same meeting, the board majority Chair Rachelle Ottoson, Vice Chair Tom Hanley and Tim Plass diminished funding for the network by the same amount, despite objections from Trustees Katie Blank and Vanessa Robinson and several words of caution from Library Director Alexa Eccles.
Community Library Network Director Alexa Eccles read an overview of censorship as provided by the Idaho Commission on Libraries as she and the board of trustees held a special meeting Friday morning.
"Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons, individuals, groups or government officials find objectionable or dangerous," she read. "It is no more complicated than saying, 'Don't let anyone read this book or buy that magazine or view that film because I object to it."