Hooray, the PCC Bond passed with about 53% approval (~28,000 votes). As my colleague noted in a comment, bond funds actually can’t be used to hire another librarian, but the hope is that if we build more library facilities it will become apparent to the powers that be (PTB) that library professionals are a necessary element of that facility.

Comments on the folly of depending on the PTB to grasp what’s apparent and obvious are unnecessary, but totally welcome. (: