[quote=all][quote=bearishgurl]For instance, I’m finding that the vast majority of residents don’t really give a damn (incl myself) if the library is only open 4-5 days per week for 2-3 hours per day. Less employees can now work in two or more local libraries to get at/ least 32 hours per week and thus keep their benefits. Each library can stagger their opening hours to coincide with other local libraries’ closing hours.[/quote]
That is a function of your lifestyle. Our local library is busy place with lots of people taking advantage of the programs and resources offered there.[/quote]
craptcha, per chance was your library paid for with MR bond money? (CAT 5 wiring, kiosks, community meeting areas, etc) Just wondering …
And if your library is run by the county, the county hasn’t had to cut back their library hours as much as some cities have had to, such as Chula Vista. Why has ChulaV had to cut back its services so much? Because they (stupidly) issued tens of thousands more residential permits than they should have during the millenium boom. When all those *newer* subdivisions went bust starting in 2007, so many of their homeowners applied for assessment appeals that the county had to bring in three FT appraisers to its (closed for biz except to collect taxes 2X annually) South County Assessor’s Office to reassess downward ALL the parcels in those *newer* subdivisions. Yes, ALL of them.
The MR bonds in were only used to BUILD all that mess (along with ancillary street improvements). They didn’t and don’t pay for maintenance or city services for all those new residents. The property taxes are supposed to but the city has gotten so much less for its portion from the state because the parcel tax collected was in many cases 50% less than the tax collected prior to the bust.
When a CA county assessor collects property tax (not incl MR or agency/school bond fees), the ad-valoreum portion of the tax bill collected reverts to the state for later distribution to the jurisdictions from whence it came.
No matter how much property tax is recovered by a city for any given fiscal year, it STILL needs to provide for basic law enforcement, fire and municipal services.
