Kathy Bolling
21:55 - 22:48
"What is tightly woven into this challenge, this argument between city and borough and people not wanting to pay a non-area-wide fee, is they want control of collection development, which is so offensively absurd to me."
“What is tightly woven into this challenge, this argument between city and borough and people not wanting to pay a non-area-wide fee, is they want control of collection development, which is so offensively absurd to me.”
- Speaker
- Kathy Bolling
- Timestamp
- 21:55 – 22:48
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Ketchikan
- Captured at
- July 9, 2026
From the transcript
I mean, that's— and if you go back and you look at the past advisory board meetings, She talks about the sexualization of children. It seems the collection is growing. It seems like there is a— quoting, this is the July 10, 2024 meeting at 1 hour, 2 minutes and 31 seconds. Seems like there is a higher prevalence of this type of reading material, and I do not think that is beneficial to our community as a whole. So, What is tightly woven into this challenge, this argument between city and borough and people not wanting to pay a non-area-wide fee, is they want control of collection development, which is so offensively absurd to me.
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