State Sen. Elliott: Local officials ‘should have the ability’ to remove library board members

State Sen. Chris Elliott is continuing his charge to hold library boards accountable to their local authorities. Elliott (R-Josephine) has pre-filed a bill that says municipal and county leaders are not only in charge of appointing local library board members, but also have the right to dismiss them if they deem necessary. “[A]s I do what so many of us do and ask the question: ‘How in the world did we get here? How is our government, whether it’s our libraries or municipalities or our schools, how are we pushing this type of ideology? How did we get here?’ You find that these types of boards a