San Diego County Library
Gets 31% Hike
Bouncing back from the March defeat of a quarter-cent sales-tax hike to bolster San Diego County’s eight ailing library systems, the San Diego County Library has received a 31% budget hike for FY 1999–2000 from county commissioners. The $15.72-million operating budget for FY 1999–2000, which reflects a $3.75-million increase over the previous fiscal year, will fund the addition of a new branch in the unincorporated area of Rancho San Diego and the replacement of four cramped branches. Plans are also in the works to build a new site in Potrero with Community Development Block Grant funds.
County Librarian Marilyn Crouch explained that the additional revenue should bring the library “to the California average for public library funding by FY 2000–2001—the goal the board has been trying to achieve for some time.”
The increase, which was approved June 21, the increase will also fund the hiring of eight new part- and full-time children’s and young-adult library workers. The budget is scheduled to be finalized August 3.
Posted July 12, 1999.
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