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Library Lowers Its Own MillageIndianapolis–Marion County Public Library Director Edward Szynaka and board President Mary Lou Rothe announced December 15 that IMCPL is voluntarily lowering its operations millage after having realized a savings of more than $1 million by utilizing printer and debit cards ($400,000), changing sick-leave policies ($300,000), lowering telecommunications costs ($162,000), and enacting other cost-cutting mechanisms. A fiscal conservative's dream come true, Szynaka and Rothe emphasized that despite the drop (from the 1997 level of .3013 per $100 of assessed property valuation to the 1998 level of .2972), the operating budget will actually increase 1.5% in 1998. With library visits up 17% and circulation rising 5% this year, "This demonstrates a double bang for the buck," Rothe remarked in a prepared statement. Posted December 29, 1997. |
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