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Dickson County Library Funding Still UnresolvedDespite an offer by a local educational foundation to provide half the money needed to keep the Dickson County (Tenn.) Public Library funded at the level required by the state, commissioners have failed a third time to pass a resolution to amend the county budget and match the donation. The measure to restore $40,571—including $20,000 offered by the Goodlark Educational Foundation—failed 6–5 at the commission’s October 20 meeting. Seven votes are required to pass a resolution.“I’m upset,” Library Director Greg Miller said in the October 22 Dickson Herald. “Goodlark gave $20,000 and the commission still can’t come up with the other half. They still can’t get over petty differences and appropriate this money.” The only chance the library has to prevent the state from reclaiming some 20,000 of its books—a threat that Tennessee State Librarian Edward Gleaves made in July if the county failed to fund its library system at an agreed-upon level—is a lawsuit filed in August by four library supporters who contend that the commission’s August 18 vote to increase the library’s funding was valid. At the time, county attorneys advised that County Mayor Linda Frazier’s attempted vote to break a 6–6 tie was illegal. Now they admit that Frazier could vote in her role as commission chair, but was interrupted before actually placing it. A hearing on the lawsuit had originally been scheduled for October 21 but was postponed until the court determines whether the plaintiffs have the legal standing to sue. Posted October 27, 2003. |
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