Library Service Cost

Hello, I am curious what percentage of taxes your library residents pay towards Library Services. I recently visited family in Chicago, and their local library had a poster made up showing the residents paid only 1%, a penny per dollar for their library service. Made me wonder about the Michigan average. For example, our library is .799 mil out of 32.7229s mills total - which is about 2.5%. If anyone is willing to share their area's percentage, I would find it interesting and useful. Attempting to get a decent enough sample size. Perhaps this has already been done? Thanks. Jack Buck, MLIS Director Richland Community Library -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

For Monroe County, the Monroe County Library System's slice of the pie chart (that the shows in their audit), is 3%. This is from a 1 mil property tax levy. Nancy Nancy Bellaire Director Monroe County Library System 840 S. Roessler St. Monroe, MI 48161 734 241-5770, ext. 216 ________________________________ From: Michlib-l <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of Jack Buck via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:05 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org <michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Service Cost Hello, I am curious what percentage of taxes your library residents pay towards Library Services. I recently visited family in Chicago, and their local library had a poster made up showing the residents paid only 1%, a penny per dollar for their library service. Made me wonder about the Michigan average. For example, our library is .799 mil out of 32.7229s mills total - which is about 2.5%. If anyone is willing to share their area's percentage, I would find it interesting and useful. Attempting to get a decent enough sample size. Perhaps this has already been done? Thanks. Jack Buck, MLIS Director Richland Community Library -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by E.F.A. Project<http://www.efa-project.org/>, and is believed to be clean.
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