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Editor,

A library is a dull place if you’re illiterate. Consider the bright side – when watching TV you don’t have too much to read, other than casual words. No, a library is not the best place to learn to read, but it’s a wonderful place to expand your reading capability and your reading horizons. 

Can you rent movies at our library? No, you borrow them for nothing on your library card. What does it cost you for a library card? Nothing.

Residents of the city carry the burden of the library cost. Those who live outside the city are getting the use of the library for nothing. Of the registered users, 61 percent live outside city limits, and 57 percent of the library’s funding comes from the city.

We use the library regularly, and feel we should pay our share, however, we don’t live in the city of Polson.

One letter to the editor thinks that the library should make the necessary budget cuts and adjustments to exist within the current taxpayer-provided funds. What does this letter writer think our library has been doing for years? The county currently does provide funding to our library, which goes only for librarian wages. The funding started in 1992 with the sum of $15,315. That was 18 years ago, and hasn’t changed since. Would you enjoy your wages frozen at the 1992 level?

Please vote yes for the library district. The county must receive your ballot by July 27 to be counted.

Bob Bushnell
Olga Lincoln
Polson

 

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