In city council chambers with packed with community members and advocacy groups, League City Council on Tuesday night met to discuss a measure that would create a new board to determine whether materials deemed offensive be allowed into the public library.
In this file photo, League City administrative and library staff elect to stand as seating capacity is limited during a City Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, to hear a proposal that denies use of tax dollars to purchase books for the library on subjects that include gender identity, sexual orientation and related topics.
The meeting came more than two months after council members passed a resolution by a 4-3 margin that could remove library books from the children’s section at Helen Hall Library that fall under as-of-yet-unspecified guidelines of “obscene” or “inappropriate” and amid continuing accusations from community members of book banning practices."The city is supposed to be non-partisan but you are not acting like it," she said.
The new library board would consist of seven members - three from the existing library board and four appointed by the mayor and confirmed by city council resulting in a city-appointed majority. Councilmember Chad Tressler, who voted against the original resolution at the Dec. 6 meeting, has maintained his original position, calling the recent measure a “poorly-written and ill-advised and attempt to placate book-banners.”
"We're trying to listen to constituents and give them a process that feels fair," Hicks told the Chronicle."We're going to give this a shot. If it doesn't change anything, then it doesn't change anything."
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