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SEAN P. NELSON
FOR THE MID-COUNTY MEMO
Discussions are under way between the Multnomah County Library director and Parkrose School District to restore library services to the Parkrose High School Community Center.
Parkrose School District board of directors Chairman Rod Martin and district Supt. Mike Taylor met officially for the first time with Multnomah County Library Director Molly Rafael on March 18 to discuss whether or not some level of county library services might be restored to the community center at the high school.
“Our intent is to try to restore the branch library,” Martin said. “Budget constraints will not allow that, so we’re looking at different options.”
Rafael and library staff will form a committee to hold further discussions with a similar committee made up of Parkrose High School staff when school resumes after spring break, Martin said.
Their recommendations will not be on the agenda for discussion when the Parkrose School District board of directors next meets on April 20.
“The superintendent and the principal of Parkrose High School will put together recommendations with the library people to make recommendations to the board,” Martin said.
In the past a combined public and school library facility was located in the community center at Parkrose High School. Public library services were discontinued there in 2001 when the library hit bad times, Rafael said.
When the 10,200-square-foot facility opened in 1998 it housed a library, a police substation and an auditorium with a stage that served as both a school and community theater.
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