California: El Dorado County Library Tax Defeated
From The Sacramento Bee:
Measure L, El Dorado County’s bid to create a parcel tax to help maintain libraries from Cameron Park to South Lake Tahoe, was defeated Tuesday night.
With all precincts reporting, Measure L received 56 percent approval. But that was well below the 67 percent needed for the measure to pass.
To date, library taxes have been unequal, with some areas of the county paying while others do not.
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Measure L specified that tax increases would be tied to inflation, up to 3 percent a year, but would not exceed $25.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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