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Washington County commissioner: library levy raises equity questions as unincorporated population tops 200,000
Summary
County Commissioner Jason Snyder told the Tualatin City Council the county is still refining how library-levy dollars are allocated among cities and nonprofit libraries and warned that housing and behavioral-health funding are increasingly uncertain.
County Commissioner Jason Snyder told the Tualatin City Council at its work session that the county is still revising how funds from a proposed library levy would be allocated among cities and nonprofit libraries, and that broader county revenue uncertainty is limiting the ability to guarantee future increases.
Snyder, who gave the quarterly update, said the county plans continued conversations and has scheduled a long session to continue work on library funding. "There is an intent to provide the same increase that the county property taxes go up by," he told councilors, but added the county is cautious about promising that in writing because "we are in a world where the funding is less certain than it was 9 months ago."
The discussion focused on how the levy money would be split…
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