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Washington County funding proposal would raise Tualatin’s library allocation to about $2.01 million under draft plan; county general‑fund support remains uncomm
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City staff and the Tualatin Public Library director reported on a Washington County Cooperative Library Services draft funding model that would increase Tualatin’s funding to roughly $2.01 million in year one under an implementation plan that includes guarantees to limit year‑one losses.
City staff and the Tualatin Public Library director updated the council on a draft funding and governance proposal from the Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) process that would change how county library levy and county general‑fund revenues are allocated to each partner library.
Jeriann Thompson, Tualatin Public Library director, described the process as “the messy middle” of change management and said the county and partners are still refining service areas, service populations and a funding methodology. The consultant and county staff have proposed a formula that converts a library’s service population into “funding units” and multiplies those units by a per‑FTE cost factor; for Tualatin the…
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