Yolo Sun: City hall to propose yet another sales tax measure

Excerpts from the Yolo Sun article "Woodland Public Library trustees begin to eye new funding with June 2012 ballot measure:"

Converging circumstances of trustees’ slowly dissolving confidence about WPL’s [Woodland Public Library's] future role as a municipal appendage and its basic operational capability when the recently adopted (2010) quarter-cent sales tax provision, Measure V, sunsets in 2014, have finally created some initial dynamic of quasi-progressive movement within municipal-library relations.

Even an inadequate (10,000 — should be 30,000+ sq. ft.) expansion plan for WPL, written into the city General Plan and supposedly funded by presently allocated $4+ million of non-accessible, perhaps forever eclipsed Measure E money (half-cent sales tax, 2006 – 2018, largely gone to pay debt service on the community and senior center / sports park), seems a far distant mirage — as library service demands consistently increase.

Recognizing city council priorities with maintaining public-safety service levels when this temporarily supplemental sales tax funding within Measure V expires in 2014, as the economy is expected to slowly recover vitality, city hall is now proposing to trustees a June 2012 ballot measure to create an eighth-cent of added sales tax revenue for WPL, beginning in 2014.

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