Annexation no way to improve Renton Library

Passage of Proposition 1 with a Renton property tax base of $11.8 billion and a King County Library System levy of 42 cents per $1,000 would generate $4.95 million per year for the King County Libraries.

January 28, 2010 3:02 pm

Passage of Proposition 1 with a Renton property tax base of $11.8 billion and a King County Library System levy of 42 cents per $1,000 would generate $4.95 million per year for the King County Libraries. Renton property owners would be committing more than two times as much to KCLS as the City of Renton currently budgets to run the library and at the same time would relinquish control to a large entity in which Renton has no control.

There has got to be a better way to achieve many of the upgrades recommended in our “Renton Public Library Master Plan.”

Please vote no!

Jim Baker

Renton