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Library director and finance staff clash over nonresident fee; council schedules public hearing
Summary
The library director proposed lowering the nonresident annual card fee to $125 with a $10 service charge and prorating; finance staff said full cost per user is significantly higher (estimates ranging from roughly $208 to $278 or $2.78 per user), and the council scheduled a public hearing and action in two weeks.
Library Director Michael presented a detailed history and a recommended change to Logan’s nonresident library-card fee during a Jan. 20 council workshop. Michael said the longstanding $163 figure traces to earlier administrative formulas and that the library board recommended reducing the fee to $125 a year, offering prorating options and adding a $10 service fee to cover administrative costs.
Michael told the council that if the original formula were updated for inflation, the fee could rise to roughly $278, but the library board rejected that approach as impractical. ‘‘If we actually took that same…
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