Like the UP and Lakewood Fire District vote, this is worth watching:
The City of Puyallup – which operates one of only three independent municipal libraries in Pierce County – may explore joining the Pierce County Library System. The City Council is expected to discuss the idea at a study session later this month.
Nothing is final; city leaders stress that the only decision for now is whether to officially launch an exploration of the idea. Puyallup residents would have to approve annexation into the library system through a public vote.
I think we'll continue to see more and more consideration of these regional cost-savings ideas. In terms of budget realities they make sense to look at, and because our region is functionally a single economic unit, not a bunch of small ones who have nothing to do with each other, (though we too often treat it that way.)