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Nashville Library Spared Budget CutThe $1.57-billion FY2008 budget approved by the Nashville (Tenn.) Metropolitan Council June 26 restores $800,000 that was initially planned to be sliced from the library’s budget to balance the municipality’s 2007–08 books. Had the cut gone through, Nashville Public Library would have had to reduce service by 10 hours per week at the main library and close eight branches on Sundays, according to the June 27 Nashville Tennessean. Library officials had also eyed eliminating 18 full-time positions. City council members reallocated the money largely from the city’s Parks Department, whose $3.5-million budget increase was $664,000 less than initially planned. “We’re all really appreciative of the support from our Metro Council and the city at large,” Director Donna Nicely told American Libraries. She noted that Mayor Bill Purcell proposed the cuts in an attempt to balance the metropolitan budget without raising taxes, and that restoration of library funding was one of only two changes the council made to the mayor’s budget request. Posted on June 29, 2007. |
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