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Liberty Lake council adopts unified, neutral funding language for library advisory materials
Summary
The City Council voted 5-0 to require neutral, fact-focused wording when the city communicates about funding for the library/community-center advisory measure and directed staff to use specified, non-committal language in official city materials.
The Liberty Lake City Council voted 5-0 on Aug. 19 to adopt a single, neutral statement the city will use in official communications about funding options for the library/community-center advisory vote.
Council members said the move aims to reduce mixed messages after residents and councilors noted differing wording in social media and an open-house survey. The motion requires city messaging to use language such as “funding options may include grants, donations, future property tax bond measures and/or other city general fund revenues” or simply “funding to be determined.”
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