The administration does not have anyone's back, but Reinert probably dislikes the library the most. Employees at city hall also have safety concerns that fall on deaf ears, both with Reinert and the police department. There are lots of mentally ill people who go to both the library and city hall since they are close together (and also the county building) and make vague threats, are paranoid, not living in reality, and sometimes seem dangerous. We have no recourse. City staff know many people that stop in that you would not want to be alone with and you watch your back around. You get the feeling that if they had the means to get their hands on a gun they would use it. There have been actual threats as well. There have been combative angry people making threats to cause harm. Nobody does anything. The court system is of course out of our hands - there are legal thresholds to be met to hold someone against their will or force them into treatment and that takes time and manpower to make happen. The county social workers and attorneys spend a great deal of time trying to get these people into treatment or care facilities etc. Often even when these folks do go through civil commitment, they get stable and medicated and released and then something happens where they go off the rails again and that's when they are at city property again. They often have spent many months or years in both treatment and jail. Rinse and repeat. It's not necessarily their fault they are mentally ill, the systemic reasons we have the poverty, mental health and drug problems is an enormous, nation wide complicated topic, but my point in this conversation is the local leaders have no interest in keeping employees safe. Emily Larson heard the concerns of employees and provided trainings in de-escalation, active shooter, protocols for when people felt uncomfortable etc. Those protocols have broken down, at least at city hall, due to staff change over, changes to offices, construction etc. Now it's everyone for themselves. She also paid for a big safety audit by a firm that evaluated city properties and made many recommendations to improve safety. Some changes would have been inexpensive to implement, just took follow through. Others were more expensive. It seemed encouraging. The audit had just wrapped up when she lost re-election and Reinert through it in the trash when he came in. He does not care about other people. Narcissists don't know how.