Carol Becker wrote:
>
> Referendums are based on a dollar amount. For the library referendum, the
> City got authority to levy debt payments for $140 million in bonds.
Was there a huge, medium, or small amount of politicking
required at the legislature to choose this figure of
$140,000,000? I do know that the library said, going into
the talks with the mayor and whoever else, that the true
cost of the new library and the money for the branches was
$156,000,000. This included the increase in operating costs
projected with the greater usage and greater hours over x
period of time.
When they came out of those meetings, the $140 million was a
fixed number, but fixing it there didn't make sense to me.
Is $140 million all the state was willing to allow? It
doesn't make sense to me to cheat your basic services so
that you're forced to cut corners and cut corners till the
dream you sold the voters for their money turns out to be,
let us say, less than the thrilling hype before the election
and passage of the referendum.
Wizard Marks, Central
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