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Samuels Public Library asks Warren County for 16.5% funding increase; supervisors defer pending library-board review
Summary
Samuels Public Library asked Warren County supervisors for a 16.5% increase in county funding for FY26, citing staff costs, new facility-maintenance contracts and technology replacement needs; supervisors said they would await a formal review by the county library board before acting.
Samuels Public Library trustees presented a fiscal year 2026 funding request to the Board of Supervisors seeking a $169,261 increase (16.5%) in county support, bringing the county appropriation sought to about $1.19 million.
Trustee and director representatives said the request primarily covers personnel costs (including a 3% proposed COLA), increases in health insurance costs the trustees absorbed for staff, a rotating technology-replacement fund, and newly contracted facility maintenance that county staff previously performed. The trustees explained the library had not grown its county funding at the same pace as operating costs: “In 2009 our combined county and town…
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