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Baldwin Public Library trustees raise alarm over higher city administrative fee and warn against reallocating library millage
Summary
Baldwin Public Library trustees told the commission they had received a proposed administrative-services contract from the city that would more than double the library’s annual administrative fee and cautioned against repurposing library millage to support a proposed community center.
Baldwin Public Library trustees and the library’s director urged the Birmingham City Commission on March 24 to halt any attempt to shift library funding toward a proposed Community and Senior Center and to revisit a recent administrative-services contract the city presented to the library board.
Why it matters: The library board said the city sent a draft administrative-services agreement that would raise the library’s annual administrative fee from about $104,000 under the 2009 arrangement to approximately $219,000 — a roughly 109% increase. Trustees said the timing and delivery of that notice, coming two days after a regular…
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