PASADENA : Library Tax Proposal Goes Before Voters Tuesday
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For six months, experts and advocates have been arguing about whether Pasadena needs a special tax to bolster its library system.
On Tuesday, the voters will get their say when they consider Proposition 1, the only issue on the special municipal election ballot.
As conceived by the City Council, the measure--which would draw an extra $20 a year from each house, $13 from each apartment and $147 from each non-residential parcel--would provide $1.3 million, enough to restore the library to 1989 service levels.
Proponents say the city needs the new tax to prevent further cuts in service in the libraries, which have faced three years of harsh cutbacks. Opponents say the City Council should cut other items in the city’s budget, and charge that the city has been using scare tactics to drum up support.
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