November 8th is election day. More exciting than the City Council Race, more exciting than the vote on Public Power, is the Library Vote.
Iowa City and Coralville, no longer satisfied with making the citizens of University Heights pay a yearly fee ($120 and $75, respectively), notified the City that it was too "expensive" to maintain private fee cards and that the City is either going to have to cough up a fee based on number of residents or not have library privileges at all.
"So you're telling me there's a chance..."
I might finally get library privileges using my own card! But wouldn't it be horrible to not get library privileges at all? There's a lot of kids who live in the Heights. Imagine not being able to go to the library!
Vote 'yes' on the library! (And 'no' on public power!)
posted by Amanda @ 7:18 PM
5 Antiphon:
Wait- you guys have to pay to use the library?
That's just wrong! They're public libraries, aren't they? [/confoosed]
Callie
Hoohrah, library! As an aside, thanks for the advice. I did live through it, but damned with all the peeing!!!!!!
I am still trying to wrap my mind around the concept of paying to join the library. If there was always one thing I could count on, it was that library meant 'free books" no matter who you were.
Yeah, some cities are assholes about getting their share of tax revenue. IC figures UH residents aren't paying taxes to support a library, so why should they allow us access to one?
Dude. Paying to use a library?!? That's just...bizarro world type logic there.
I think I'd invest in some torches and pitchforks. (Of course, that's my answer for just about everything.)
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