Bond Bid Shortchanges Dallas PL
Ignoring the request of Dallas Public Library trustees to place a $35-million bond request for six branch upgrades before Dallas voters May 2, city officials announced in mid-December that they will ask taxpayers for only $6 million for library-system improvements.
Citing roof problems at two branches, DPL board chairman Lee Simpson told the Dallas Morning News December 22, "With some of these libraries, not only is the sky falling, but it literally already has fallen." The disparity would enable the library to replace only the Lancaster-Kiest branch and plan (but not execute) renovations for three others.
The proposed bond is part of a proposed $470-million bond issue whose line-item requests also disappointed animal-welfare, arts, and law-enforcement groups.
Posted December 29, 1997.
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