The Los Angeles Library Commission and County Librarian Margaret Donnellan Todd on Tuesday submitted a report asking the Board of Supervisors to call for a 2011 ballot measure that would raise taxes and drastically increase the number of property owners who pay the tax.
The Board of Supervisors declined to take action on the request and instead chose to file the report for consideration.
Library officials said they did not know how much the tax would be, but said the proposed change would generate between $12 million and $23 million each year over the next decade. Any tax increase would need a two-thirds vote to become law.
The commission wants to extend to the tax to every parcel in neighborhoods served by the library system.
In Duarte, the parcel tax keeps the library open six days a week while libraries outside the assessment area are open only four days per week, according to Pamela Broussard, Los Angeles County Library spokeswoman. Duarte Public Library manager Reed Strege said extra days are important for those who don’t have Internet access at home.
“We’re kind of like the Internet provider for the city if they don’t have it,” said library manager Reed Strege. “Our computers for the public are in use all day, every day.”
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