$1M Cut From Gwinnett Library Budget
Gwinnett leaders think the libraries are necessary, but with a different approach.
From Suwanee Patch After another million-dollar budget cut to the Gwinnett County library system, county leaders think it's time for that organization to change its approach. "I would encourage the library to look at a new business model," Gwinnett District 2 Commissioner Lynette Howard said Thursday (January 3) as the county's elected leaders passed the 2013 budget. Amid a still-tight revenue situation, commissioners cut $1 million in materials from the library's budget, the latest of several large reductions to that system. Howard noted that the library branches "need to be a community center," but that current plans of coping with their situation are "not working," and she pledged to do "anything I can do" to help. -- What do you think …
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Ruthy Lachman Paul
10:15 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
Cliche The grass is always greener - Plates depicting human nature to be jealous and want what belongs to another, due to a feeling that his "better." Is Cobb County better? or Is it only in the head of the Gwinnett leaders? Are the Gwinnett elected leaders cut there salary or there office budget ? more ›