SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – Only moments before the South Pittsburg City Commission’s November meeting, Commissioner Samantha Rector found out the town was not meeting its financial requirements for the Beene-Pearson Library that are outlined in an agreement with the state.
During the meeting, Rector said an increase of $2,025 was needed in the library’s budget to adhere to those rules.
“If we don’t do that, we lose books and technical support,” she said.
South Pittsburg also would lose more than $5,000 annually in state funding.
City Administrator Gene Vess told the board he “didn’t have a problem” with putting the money back into the library’s budget, but then expressed deep concerns with how the Stones River Regional Library and the Marion County library board run local libraries.