OH Library districts fight for a piece of state funds

Marlene writes “ Here’s one for the lawyers. When is a library that circulates to the public eligible for state funding? Self described as a “privately funded public library”, Wagnalls Memorial Library, of Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Co fame, has asked the Fairfield County Budget Commission for $324,700 of the $4.2 million in state funding usually split 73-27 between neighboring Fairfield County and Pickerington library systems. The commission has stated it will make it’s decision about changing the two-way split into a three-way split of the 2004 state funding by September. Fairfield County District Library has threatened to sue over the funding issue if Wagnalls gets a piece of the pie.”

August 19, 2003 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. Marlene says:
    August 19, 2003 at 7:01 am

    to be fair to Fairfield for threatening a lawsuit
    I suppose this is a case of “he’s way too heavy to be my brother.”

    Fairfield reports in it’s newsletter that it recently had to close a branch and shorten hours at other locations to cope with dwindling state funding.

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  2. Marlene says:
    August 19, 2003 at 7:12 am

    to be fair to Fairfield for threatening a lawsuit
    I suppose this is a case of “he’s too heavy to be my brother.”

    Fairfield reports in it’s newsletter that it recently had to close a branch and shorten hours at other locations to cope with dwindling state funding.

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