Library Fee for Oakland on Piedmont’s April 18 Agenda

The Piedmont City Council will have a discussion of the library fee dispute at its April 18 meeting.

At Monday evening’s council meeting, Mayor Dean Barbieri directed that a status report on the city’s negotiations with Oakland over Piedmont’s payment to Oakland for library services be placed on the council’s April 18 meeting. He said there is misunderstanding in the community about the disagreement.

Piedmont has no municipal library. A 10-year contract with Piedmont paying Oakland $350,000 annually expired in 2008. The two cities have not reached an agreement to continue—and possibly increase—that payment and in this fiscal year, no payments are being made.

City Administrator Geoff Grote said, “We will go over the offer that we made and give some idea of the financial impacts of that.”