“We’re not here to ask you for money,” Donna Street recently told Dade County school board members with a chuckle.
Had that been the case, she said, board members would not have been surprised.
Street and other Cherokee Regional Library officials are making the rounds to city, county and school board officials, pushing the idea of creating single, clearinghouse setups in Walker and Dade counties to handle all funding requirements for the four branches of the library.
Without a consistent funding arrangement, the library system could eventually be forced to lay off employees or reduce hours at its four branches, said Lecia Eubanks, director of Cherokee Regional Library.
Even so, the proposal already has encountered opposition because it likely would raise property taxes.