A committee working on a plan for a new library in El Cerrito is also pushing the city to provide funding in its 2013-14 budget to keep the current 65-year-old library open more hours per week … Former City Manager Gary Pokorny, a New Library Committee member, said he thinks increasing current library hours needs to be a priority. “They have to find some money in the new budget to increase the hours,” Pokorny said. “It’s now dark on Wednesday and Sunday.”

Read more at “El Cerrito Library boosters seek increase in open hours,” Contra Costa Times, May 30, 2013.