(Editor's Note: The following letter was sent to the Board of Trustees of the King County Library System with a copy to the Times/News.)

As legislators representing the White Center and Boulevard Park neighborhoods, we write to urge you not to consolidate the White Center and Boulevard Park libraries into a single branch.

Upgrades to these facilities were promised in the 2004 KCLS bond measure. The prospect of eliminating one library branch in the North Highline area would be a tremendous disappointment to the community and to all of us.

The prospect of Seattle annexing the remaining unincorporated area in North Highline presently appears dim, and to consolidate these library branches based on such a distant possibility would be a disservice to the North Highline communities that overwhelmingly backed the 2004 bond measure.

Joe Fitzgibbon
Sharon Nelson
Eileen Cody
Margarita Prentice
Bob Hasegawa