Gen Katz, of Friends of the Oakland Public Library, rebuts Judy Offer’s letter in opposition to Measure N, saying among other things that reuse of the Kaiser Center would be no more expensive that the alternative of increasing the height of the existing Main Library.

Playwright Judith Offer says No to Measure N because most of the money would go not to the branches but to the conversion of the Kaiser Auditorium.

Kathleen Hirooka explains the benefits that passing Measure N—the Neighborhood and Main Library Improvement, Expansion, Repair and Construction Facilities Bond Measure—will confer on Oakland’s libraries.