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The State Library's district-changes file (updated 16 Dec 2023), read in full in the sibling pass and corroborated; the library's own timeline for the service proof
Clay service is proven by 1977; how and when the township entered the district is not reached. The State Library's district-changes file — the legal file of expansions, mergers and transfers — carries exactly one expansion for this system: "South Bend expanded into Union Twp. 1990," the Lakeville branch expansion, which was also the year of the system's renaming. There is no Clay entry in the file: the 1990 turn was the rename and Union Township only, and any account that dates Clay Township's library service from 1990 is wrong against the legal file. Service itself is proven decades earlier in fact — the Clay Branch opened in 1977, and the future director Debra Futa served as an assistant manager at the Francis Branch in the early 1980s. The entry date and its mechanism stand not reached (gap G-LB-1, carried from the sibling build), and no referendum, contract or school-district mechanism is asserted in its place. Its settlers stand as the sibling pass named them: Waterson's 1994 history of the library, the library board's minutes of the expansion era, and the State Library's pre-1952 district records.