Billy Yow is on a tear. First he forgets that Greensboro residents pay county taxes, then he tries to take Steve Arnold's legal and ethical woes off the table as a political issue: "'I don’t think his personal business has anything to do with his business as commissioner,' Yow said."
The county needs to pay its share for the library system. Charging non-GSO residents for use would cost the library system $300k in direct state funding, plus other forms of state support, and more importantly it would undermine the whole idea of public libraries and hurt county residents who need libraries the most.
RockCo tried to toy with the library funding a few years back. Ended up losing the state matching funds and access to all the state library cpu networks and db's.
Two years later they had to eat crow and admit their mistake.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Dec 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM
I dont disagree but why do county residents need libraries most?
Posted by: Mick | Dec 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Don't mean county residents in general need libraries most, but that those least able to pay a fee are those who need a free library most.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Dec 31, 2009 at 11:33 AM
We were considering using the library for part of ConvergeSouth in 2010 but their lack of suitable wireless bandwidth is forcing us to a more expensive and less desirable location. (it's a nice location, just more expensive).
We were willing to pay for additional bandwidth during the conference but can't figure out who to talk to. Any library-mavens have an idea?
Posted by: Sue | Dec 31, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Cutting library funding so deeply is penny-wise but pound-foolish. Public libraries matter.
Posted by: Andrew Brod | Jan 02, 2010 at 11:28 PM