Wisconsin Village Uses Sales-Tax Savings
to Fund Children’s Room
Officials at the Duerrwaechter Memorial Library in Germantown, Wisconsin, found a creative solution to pay for the children’s room of its new library after it was cut from the project’s budget by the village board. The library will use its tax-exempt status to purchase construction materials directly, eliminating $55,000 in sales tax the contractor would have had to pay.
The rest of the money needed for the $77,000 children’s section will be made up by making minor changes in the building’s engineering and architectural features, library board president Darlene Vosen told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel August 23. “They are extremely minor changes and will not affect the appearance or the quality of the building,” she said.
The board was eager to include the Children’s Village, which will be designed to resemble a medieval German village, because it will provide a place for children’s activities that otherwise might disrupt library users, Vosen said. Library construction will begin in April.
Posted August 27, 2001.
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