Courtesy Photo Chief Collins from Grand Saline PD comes to use the library computers to send his email.
The Grand Saline Public Library is preparing to talk to the Commissioner’s Court to defend the funding that we receive each year from the county. Over the last few years both the Van Zandt County Library and the Grand Saline Public Library have received funds from Van Zandt County.
Last year (and the years prior) the GSPL received $10,500 while the Van Zandt County Library was budgeted $125,725 (which included $107,472 for personnel costs).
This year the Van Community Library and the Tri-County Library in Mabank, which serve Van Zandt County patrons, are asking for funding from Van Zandt County. We at the GSPL feel that library funding at the county level provides the libraries in our county with the means to help our citizens in ways that few realize.
Our libraries work every day with citizens of this county and surrounding counties to help them get jobs and find the resources they need to improve their lives which in turn improve Van Zandt County.
On Aug. 10, the GSPL will be going to speak to the Commissioners of Van Zandt County and we would love your support. It’s important that they know how important libraries are in our county.
We believe that all the libraries in our county deserve financial support. And we believe that all the libraries have an obligation to use those funds as wisely and as prudently as possible.
We are not asking for additional funds for our library. We are asking only that we be able to maintain the funding that we currently receive.
We are not asking that any other library give up their funds for us. We are asking that our current level of funding simply be maintained.
We are asking to preserve an asset that many of you depend on in many different ways.
The following is an article that we have shared in the past about how GSPL uses our funding. Please take a moment to read this information.
We would love to have your support.
Following the article is the contact information for the commissioners and we would appreciate anyone who reaches out to them in support of the libraries in our county.
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