From Bakersfield.Com
“For two months, a group of about 250 volunteers has been out in Kern County collecting signatures for the Library Tax Measure, also known as the “Library Initiative for Everyone.”This grassroots coalition of educators and supporters of the Kern County Libraries is advocating once again for a 1/8 cent sales tax that would double the libraries’funds — and even though it’s too late to get it on this November’s ballot, they’re still collecting signatures.In 2016, a similar tax initiative received a vote of 51.68 percent, falling short of the two-thirds vote requirement. After a California Supreme Court decision in August changed the rules so that tax increases proposed by citizens only need a simple majority to pass, the library supporters decided to try again.”
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