If the measure passes, Ketchikan Public Library Director Pat Tully says she’d have to lay off about half of the library’s employees. And the roughly 2,000 library card holders who live outside city limits would not be able to check out materials at all.
. She’d have to lay off about half of the library’s employees and cut its hours by 25%. The roughly 2,000 library card holders who live outside city limits would not be able to check out materials. And almost all programming for children, teens, adults and elders would have to be cut.“To lose that resource of the library would mean that we would lose hundreds of books that we would read each year that my kids memorize and remember and become part of them,” she said.
“I’m going to leave it up to the voters that are in the non-areawide to make a decision on whether or not they would like those property taxes to continue to support the library,” he said. That’s the thing about Proposition 2: it doesn’t prohibit the borough from funding the library. It just removes the property tax that currently provides the borough’s portion of library funding. So if voters pass the proposition, the assembly could, for example, impose a new borough-wide tax to fund the library.
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