This isn’t just a library tax, it’s a disguised general fund tax. The City Council should stop lying about it.
To understand how the library-tax charade works, consider its history:
Thus, the general fund would still cover 66% of the total cost for libraries. The tax left the impression it was supposed to be a supplement to existing library funding, not a replacement. So, the amount from the special taxes kept growing while, when measured against inflation, the city’s general fund share keeps shrinking. That’s the key to the cost-shifting.
In 2018, voters approved Measure D, an additional 20-year library tax with a single-family house rate starting at $75 annually. The tax was expected to generate to start $10 million annually, in addition to the revenues from Measure Q, and the total general fund share was increased to $13 million.
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