Tipp City library wants voters to help keep doors open
TIPP CITY — The Tipp City Public Library will ask voters to help keep it alive.
Details are being hammered out on a tax proposal, now estimated at 0.75-mills, to keep the library’s doors open.
The proposal, which would appear on the November ballot, was discussed briefly Monday, June 22, by the Tipp City Board of Education.
The proposal already was in the works when word of possible deep cuts in library funding in the next biennium came out of Columbus on Friday, June 19.
The board of education will be asked to place the tax request on the ballot on behalf of the library, which was formed as a school district library, Joe Smith, schools treasurer, said.
The schools would not receive any money from the levy. Levy proceeds would come to the district then sent directly on to the library, Smith said.
Mark Mabelitini, library director, said the county auditor has been asked to certify how much a 0.75- mill levy would generate annually. The library board still must determine the length of the proposed levy.
