Tomorrow November 3rd, we will be allowed to go to the polls and vote to determine the shape of our local government
And as has been the case most of the time recently we will get to decide whether or not our Taxes will be raised.
The City has decided it can no longer run the Library on the Funds it has available and therefore needs to raise the Library Levy from 4¢ per $1000 to 27¢ per $1000
An increase of 575% in our Library Tax.
This is odd considering just few years ago they were telling us a totally different story.
I have a young friend who was running for a seat on the Town Council who made a few statements on the subject and the Gazette ran a Fact Checking Article which determined that what he said was
Mostly Fiction?
In a Wednesday evening debate, candidates Justin Wasson, 23, and Carl Cortez, 66, were generally critical of post-flood decisions made by the city council, while candidate Ann Poe, 58, defended the post-flood spending on the downtown library, saying, "you can't have a good apple if the core is rotten."
Here's a look at some of the claims made by the three candidates during the debate and whether the statements were fact, mostly factual, half true, mostly fiction or fiction.
Issue: Is the new library too big, expensive?
Claim: Wasson thinks the city is building a downtown library that is too big, too nice and too expensive. He said the city is getting a "giant" library downtown that is "significantly bigger than the older library" In the end, with the cost to maintain the building, "I'm going to be paying off this library for the rest of my life."
Determination: Mostly fiction
Why: The city's former downtown library at 500 First St. SE was 84,000 square feet in size. The new library will be 94,000 square feet, with more space for children and teens, library officials said.
The new $49 million library is being built without local property taxes. The money comes from a mix of federal disaster funds, a state I-JOBS grant, private donations and $4 million in revenue from the city's local option sales tax, which already has been collected.
Bob Pasicznyuk, the city's library director, said Thursday the operational costs at the new library will not be any larger than the operational costs at the old one, and may be less.
Isn't INTERESTING in just a few short years the City and the Gazette have gone from the Library costs too much to run being
Mostly Fiction
To
We must Raise the Library Levy 575%
Now did they LIE to us?
Or are they just so INCOMPETENT that we should NEITHER believe a word they say NOR let them touch any Tax Payer Funds.
There has been a furious debate on the Iowa Conservative Fanpage in responce to this ad
You should go there and put YOUR 2¢ in and see what others have said
One thing I learned was that the
" CR Library has a budget that far exceeds that of
Des Moines. "
Which makes me think that we HAVE the answer.
We don't need to Raise Taxes
We just need to send someone to
Des Moines
To find out how to run a Library
Updated: Monday, 2 November 2015 2:35 AM CST
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