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Akron Summit County Public Library seeks voter approval for $160 million bond to repair and modernize 19 branches
Summary
Library officials told the Green City Council the May ballot measure is a 1‑mill, 20‑year bond to fund capital repairs and modernization across 19 branches; the cost to a $100,000 home is about $35 per year.
Pam Hickson Stephenson, executive director of the Akron Summit County Public Library, told the Green City Council on April 22 that the library system will ask voters in May to approve a 1‑mill, 20‑year bond that the system estimates will raise $160 million for capital work across 19 locations.
The measure would pay for repairs and upgrades the system says are overdue after the 1997 bond that funded construction and major renovations to most branches. "It is a 1 mil 20 year issue that will raise $160,000,000," Hickson Stephenson said, adding the work would proceed over six to eight years and “no location will go untouched in the system.”
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