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County Refuses Funding to Lansing Library |
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 A proposal to allocate $5,000 in contingent funding for the Lansing Community Library failed by a vote of 5-9. (Legislators Greg Stevenson, Jim Dennis, Mike Hattery, Kathy Luz Herrera, Dooley Kiefer, Pam Mackesey, Martha Robertson, Nathan Shinagawa, and Chair Mike Koplinka-Loehr voted no; Legislator Will Burbank was absent.)
Lansing Legislator Mike Sigler, who proposed the measure to cover unplanned start-up costs related to the library’s transition late last year from a provisional reading room to permanent rural library, called it “an equity issue,” noting that the county’s other four rural libraries had received similar start-up funding at the time that they joined the Finger Lakes Library System.
But others pointed out that the premise of that earlier funding to the other rural libraries was not the same, that the other libraries had provided considerable documentation of financial need for their County support, and that the Lansing Library had not requested the allocation and had indicated that it would not need County funding.
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