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Midpoint Library tells Monroe council voters will decide on May 6 replacement levy
Summary
Travis Bouts of Midpoint Library briefed Monroe City Council on a five-year, 0.75-mill replacement levy that will appear on the May 6 ballot and clarified the librarysystem's governance, service boundaries and programs.
Travis Bouts, representative of the Midpoint Library System, told the Monroe City Council that the library is asking voters to approve a five-year, 0.75-mill replacement levy on May 6 to replace an expiring levy.
Bouts said the current levy, originally levied in 2010 and renewed in later years, has lost purchasing power and has slipped to about 0.4 mills. He told the council that the replacement levy would be 0.75 mills but that "there is no overlap between the 2 levies. 1 would expire, 1 would start," and that the net increase is smaller than the raw rate change — about a net increase of less than $12 per $100,000 of assessed value because an…
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