Library funding options before voters in county

Whitman County’s rural library district is asking voters to decide on a number of propositions in the Nov. 3 election.

Voters in all but six county towns are asked to increase the library’s levy rate to $.50 per $1,000 to raise a total of $646,700 in property tax revenue next year.

That amounts to an estimated 11 percent increase over the $581,542 in property taxes collected by the library this year.

The measure has to go before voters under restrictions of Initiative 747, which limits property tax revenue increases to one percent per year unless voters in a district approve a larger sum. Stat...