Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
To the Editor: As many of you may be aware, the Waddington Hepburn Library board has petitioned to be placed on the annual Madrid-Waddington Central School budget. Proposition 5 is requesting that …
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To the Editor:
As many of you may be aware, the Waddington Hepburn Library board has petitioned to be placed on the annual Madrid-Waddington Central School budget.
Proposition 5 is requesting that school taxpayers approve the collection of tax levy to help the Waddington Library’s daily operations. If this is approved the Waddington and Madrid taxpayers will be supporting Waddington’s Library. This would mean that as a taxpayer in Madrid, you would be required to pay taxes that are supporting another town’s library.
I fully support public libraries and urge people to use and take advantage of their local libraries but I do not feel that taxpayers in a specific school district should be paying for another town’s library operations.
Finally, I am urging all taxpayers who live in the Madrid-Waddington school district to vote no on Proposition 5 on the school ballot on Tuesday, May 17.
Kevin Finnegan
Madrid Town Board Member
