support any library system. Our county doesn't have a county library. So
anyone who lives in an unincorporated area doesn't pay a single dime of
taxes, either thru their own property tax or thru a landlord paying property
taxes, that goes to support a library.
In our area, if a person has a library card for one library, they can walk
into a ton of other libraries in the area and check out books with the card
they have from their own town's library. It's a reciprocal service type of
thing. They can walk into my town's library, and I can walk into their
town's library. But these are people who live in unincorporated areas so
they have absolutely no library card to begin with.
So if I'm paying to support the library thru my property taxes or thru the
rent I pay my landlord, why should I be happy if a family who doesn't
support any libary at all is able to take books out of my town's library?
If the people could afford to live in town, they do. A lot of them rent in
unincorporated areas because there are more slumlords in the unincorporated
areas with cheaper rents and with far less restrictions on occupancy
numbers. Right now it's actually occupancy numbers more than rent that are
THE big thing in our area. There are poverty level families that will
squeeze an extended family of 15 or 16 people or more into a two bedroom
apartment or townhouse. Or poorer families who own their own homes will
turn those homes into "boarding houses" for extra weekly cash, something
that tends to be strictly controlled by towns and villages but not so much
by the county if the house is in an unincorporated area. Altho the county
does at least come down on people who turn their unattached garages into
"boarding houses" -- if they find out about it.
~~ Mosey ~~
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From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of StarSaels
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:36 AM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Bad boxer repository?
$400 a year for a flippin' library card? That's insane! I've gotten
library cards for all the different library networks in the metro
Atlanta area, including a university library, and I've never been
charged anything.
That's insane. I'd relocate just based on that insidious treachery.
SS
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>
> For example, I spend a lot of time logging books onto librarything.com
> because the poverty level folks in my area who live in an unincorporated
> section of the county will then be able to go online to see what
they might
> be able to come over and borrow from me. They can't afford the $400
a year
> charge for a library card that our town charges non-residents,
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