By james art 
The city of Irvine will hire 37 full -time employees and 19 full -time part -time positions to serve its new library system.
Roles will start immediately. City leaders earn about $ 2.8 million to finance these positions over the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on June 30.
The city has allocated another $ 2.6 million to create a new library IT infrastructure and improve its university park and branches of heritage with new carpets, paint and furniture.
The city’s library system will open to the public in these two branches on July 1.
Currently, these libraries are managed by OC public libraries. The Ervine City Council voted last year to leave the system of the County Library to start its own.
City leaders say that Ervine can eventually operate up to five or six libraries, including one in the big park.
As of April 1, as the county begins its exit, Heritage Park and University Park libraries will experience reduced hours – details are yet to be announced.
And from May 16 to June 30, these libraries will be completely closed so that Irvine can complete the operational transition.
The Katie Wheeler library is also scheduled to close for six months, from July to December.
The city will start hiring the Katie Willer library from the county on January 1st.
Irvine City manager Oliver Chi said his staff was working to “cut this precipice”.
City staff plans to submit additional requests for financing the Municipal Council for Operations at a Katie Willer branch on a later date.
The city has already hired its chief librarian Julie Zeoli, who comes to Irbain from Job Linda’s libraries. Zeoli monitors the transition.
City employees say they will strive to hire 15 additional librarians, library service manager and a number of paraproofs.
Irvine is recruiting candidates from the district system, the nearby library systems governed by the city, recently graduated from local universities and even outside the region, staff said.
City authorities say they expect the department to be hired and the board to be carried out by June.
“I could not be more fledged by moving this forward,” said Council member Mike Carroll. “I know a lot of work has come into this. To present this program is really exciting for those of us who have grown very close to public libraries. “