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While two libraries remain closed due to catastrophic water damage, Community Library Network trustees are poised to make costly changes to CLN’s insurance policies. If no other quotes come in before Friday, library trustees will accept insurance quotes from Wright Specialty Insurance and American Family Insurance and cancel current policies with the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program and the Great American Insurance Group. These changes will nearly double the library network’s insurance...

Trustees voted down a motion that would have bound the Community Library Network to another insurance provider and brought the district over budget during an emergency meeting Thursday evening at the Post Falls Library.

POST FALLS, Idaho. — The Post Falls Library suffered major water damage due to the burst of a fire suppression line last month.Weeks later, library staff are still left picking

The catastrophic damage caused by freezing in the Post Falls and Athol Library buildings is estimated to take four to six months to repair.

POST FALLS, Id.—The Post Falls and Athols Library are likely closed until summer due to extensive damage caused by January’s freeze.

Recent flooding at Post Falls and Athol libraries due to a pipe burst from the freezing temperatures has caused "catastrophic" damage to both buildings.

Library network leadership under subtle but subversive assault

Staff members of the Community Library Network will now be required to present the board of trustees with a report of new purchases every other month.

Locations across Post Falls and other areas in North Idaho have experienced burst pipes and ruptured fire sprinkler systems brought on by winter weather this week.

If a newly proposed director evaluation policy that includes a section on performance probation conflicts with the present personnel policy by which the Community Library Network operates, director evaluation policy committee members are ready to wait and see what legal counsel says. “The personnel manual either applies or it doesn’t apply," Community Library Network board Vice Chair Tom Hanley said Tuesday during the committee's first official public meeting, a recording of which ...