“It does provide some service, but sometimes you have to judge what’s most important,” said McFarland City Manager Kenny Williams — who is also the police chief.
before authorities found his body in a car at the bottom of the Kern River. A previous police chief pleaded no contest in 2020 to using city funds to pay an officer to help renovate his home.
“I like the library,” Williams said. “I think it’s a beautiful place to congregate. But it’s not being used enough.” When I asked if he would reconsider his takeover bid if it was open more days, he laughed. The City Council has said there will be a new library in an undisclosed location, open three days a week instead of two. Williams vows that a room currently used for story time will be a base for new Police Activities League and Explorer programs.
“Minimizing a library down to merely a facility that checks out books misses the point of what a library is,” she said.
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