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Chickasaw County libraries ask supervisors for 6% funding increase to offset inflation
Summary
Library directors and a local board president told supervisors that a 6% county funding increase—about $7,800 total—would help maintain programming, ADA improvements and high usage in small-town branches, asking the board to consider the request during budget deliberations.
Library leaders and a local library board president urged the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 18 to raise county library funding by 6% to keep pace with inflation and sustain services.
"We're not trying to be greedy here," the board president for Upham Memorial said during a 20-minute presentation, asking the board to provide "at least an increase of 6% over last year, which would pay a total budgetary output of $7,800" across county…
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