By Joe Smillie
Gazette Reporter 

Kirkpatrick lobbies legislators to keep funding in place

 

February 25, 2010



At the request of the county library district director, Whitman County commissioners have penned a letter to Olympia, urging legislators to ease proposed cuts to the state’s portion of library funding.

Kristie Kirkpatrick, county library director, told commissioners last week state budget proposals include as much as $2 million in cuts to library funding.

For smaller districts with smaller lines of funding, the state and federal dollars are critical, she said. King County’s library system, she pointed to as an example, can absorb the costs because of higher budgets.

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