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For Monroe County, the Monroe County Library System's slice of the pie chart (that the shows in their audit), is 3%. This is from a 1 mil property tax levy.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:05 PM<br>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:15px">I am curious what percentage of taxes your library residents pay towards Library Services. I recently visited family in Chicago, and their local library had
a poster made up showing the residents paid only 1%, a penny per dollar for their library service. Made me wonder about the Michigan average.</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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For example, our library is .799 mil out of 32.7229s mills total - which is about 2.5%. </span></font></div>
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<div style="font-size:15px"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">If anyone is willing to share their area's percentage, I would find it interesting and useful. Attempting to get a decent enough sample size. <br>
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Perhaps this has already been done? Thanks.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size:15px"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Jack Buck, MLIS</font></div>
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