[quote=bearishgurl][quote=all]The point was the fact that you don’t take advantage of particular service does not mean a thing. I have no use for retrofitting sidewalks to accommodate disabled and elderly, airplane carriers and campsites. Few services are universally appreciated which is the reason MR exists – people who want to pay for extras can buy in the area where the extras are offered.[/quote]
craptcha, FWIW, my kid(s) and I DID take advantage of the library for a long time. But its late fees have quadrupled in recent years and they have resorted to hard-handed tactics to collect money when all they would have had to do is call me or send me a notice that I still had the book and I would have brought it in and paid the late charges.
If your “new, modern, high-tech” library was paid for with MR bond money, keep it mind that it is staffed (salaries) and run (utilities/maintenance) with ALL of our property tax money if it is county-run and ALL of the property tax money collected by a city if it is city-run. This includes money collected from parcels not lying within the CFD(s) the library was built to serve. Thus, it cannot discriminate in who they issue library cards to, as long as they reside within the City or County where the library is situated. And the library is open to any individual who wishes to use it.
Public facilities lying within CFDs cost ALL local taxpayers dearly in public salaries, utilities and maintenance even if they were built with MR bond money.[/quote]
People living in CFD areas are not excused from paying the sales and property taxes. It is more likely that the sales & property taxes collected in my area sponsor your facilities than the other way around.
I’m fine with scaling back the taxes and the services for everyone and then empowering communities to decide if they want their libraries open or closed.
