Correction: Library asks voters for 7.08 cent hike

The Whitman County library district rate request on the Feb. 11 ballot would mean an increase of 7.08 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuaton. Last week’s Gazette rundown of election requests on the ballot incorrectly reported that the proposal seeks an increase of 50 cents.

The library is asking voters in the district to approve a return of the tax levy rate to the limit of 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuaton.

Under the state’s 2001 Initiative 747, which limits tax entities to an annual one percent increase in revenue from property taxes per year, the library’s levy rate has dropped as it...