Turning public libraries into homeless hangouts was one of those great ideas that progressives came up with to wreck the institutions that they claim to care about. Ever since crazy people hanging out at libraries have become a problem along with the ongoing violence, crazy behavior and drug use.
Here’s your library card. And your meth.
The Boulder Public Library, already closed since before Christmas following the evaluation of two staff members for exposure to methamphetamine that was reportedly being smoked in the building’s restrooms, will not open as originally planned Tuesday.
The City of Boulder announced a gradual reopening of the library to begin Wednesday. The facility is not scheduled to return to normal capacity for the public until Jan. 9. That date is tentative.
Wednesday, citizens will only be allowed to pick up materials that have been placed on hold. No members of the public will be allowed beyond the main entrance.
The building was closed the same day initial testing of public restroom vents “showed levels well above state thresholds for methamphetamine contamination,” according to the city’s press release. The decision to conduct those tests came after two employees fell ill. Both of those staffers were medically cleared for potential meth exposure, per the city.
How does a public library become so contaminated that employees get sick and it takes weeks to clean up?
A reviewer noted, “This library is filled with homeless. It stinks the moment you walk in.”
It’s not as if nobody noticed that this was going on, but nothing could be done about it because that would be intolerant. Not until people actually got sick.
And this was also happening in public areas.
Per the contractor’s report, the public restrooms contained the highest levels of contamination, the city stated. A small number of other “discrete” areas also some degree of contamination, too – namely, a heavily seating area with booths and fixed tables along the first floor’s west wall.
What are the risks to kids? What about the plan for preventing it in the future? Best not to ask.
“Methamphetamine use has dramatically increased as a challenge over the past few years in communities across the nation, including Boulder County,” stated Acting Director of Boulder County Public Health Lexi Nolen in the press release. “Boulder County Public Health is committed to continued partnership with the City of Boulder and others to identify and implement solutions that both protect the community and provide support to those needing help.”
The solution would be to enforce drug laws and keep junkies out of public libraries, or at least prevent them from smoking meth by the premises by, I don’t know, calling the cops.
Progress on that front has been very incremental.
In January 2021, the city cleared away one of its largest homeless encampments near the downtown Boulder Public Library in part due to concerns about its proximity to a playground. The city then built a skatepark at the once-popular sleeping are
After 9/11, the Boulder Library became infamous for refusing to hang American flags while hanging “other” things up. A few years ago it was promoting its desire to be involved in the homeless situation.
On the basis of the demographic analysis of this report and on the vision of the future of the public library, we believe that the Boulder Public Library is well positioned to advance its service to core customers as well as to strategically address the identified areas that are critical challenges. Specifically:
To work with the homeless services to develop creative and innovative strategies for impactful outcomes.
I’d say that the creative and innovative impact has been achieved.
I don’t understand. If you do meth, you probably shouldn’t be reading. Just remove all the books and open back up. What’s the problem?
How about the library being just the place where the books can be found? And you can check them out – to read. And the selection of those books are made based on popular demand (and need) by staff having the awareness that leads the selection based on being informed, and devoted to real fairness of balance and good taste.
I know – that’s so old.
Why, you’re obviously a troglodyte. Didn’t you get the memo? Libraries are now the places to harbor drug addicts and promote queer gender theory to children during drag “story hours.” Being a repository for lending books and doing research is just so yesterday. C’mon, man, get with the times.
They could use the standard traditional method of cleaning all the surfaces in the bathrooms and get the employees to stay out of the vents and reopen and segregate the meth heads by bus downtown into the City of Boulder government office buildings including the City Council chambers and allow them to spend their days and the nights there too.
Design libraries and other public facilities so that as much as possible they can be steam cleaned or power washed, etc.
Boulder Library reminds me of the elderly on meth because I don’t think many young turktards are visiting a library unless they’re students with an exam to pass possibly They are otherwise engaged on their tardmagnet phones which are super high tech and right now.
This is worrying because while in the past they used to say stuff was tapping into youth angst I think Biden might be tapping into elderly angst.
Can meth or other addicts live to be elderly?
Theres plenty of elderly angst out there. We were just targeted for eugenic euthanasia by a bioweapon. Thats angst making.
Contemporary elderly angst is unfortunately so much like teen angst. All about belonging in this chaotic happenstance.
Another unforeseen consequence of the leftist caused homeless crisis: the ruination of the public library system.
What makes you think it was unintentional? Has the left also unintentionally ruined education, academia, culture, media, ur cities, the military, government, big business, medicine, etc.? Or do you see a pattern emerging?
Are the librarians still getting paid, even though they are not working?
“To work with the homeless services to develop creative and innovative strategies for impactful outcomes.” – Cops with nightsticks and flashlights or just hire Negan to clean the place out. That would be innovative and impactful.
What makes you think it was unintentional? Has the left also unintentionally ruined education, academia, culture, media, ur cities, the military, government, big business, medicine, etc.? Or do you see a pattern emerging?
In my town, the central library was built on a site where homeless people hung around. When it was finished, the homeless moved back in. So, for the last 60 or more years, when you went there you saw homeless people and buns hanging around, reading newspapers or resting. It was not like a quiet local library in the suburbs. It may be that it smells like narcotics. I have a poor sense of smell, maybe, maybe not. Since the pandemic, there have not been many people using the library anyway. There are police in the lobby and patrolling the floors, and there have been as long as I can remember. My neighborhood library was more of the conventional quiet place to read and do research. Now it sort of is, except for things like drag queen readings and most of the time after school the computers are filled with children playing computer games and jabbering. Somehow it is not the way it once was. And the central library seems more like it always was, with the resident homeless.