Article: Los Angeles County, Calif., Officials to Put Library Tax Issue on Ballot.

By Michelle Rester, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 25--Some elected officials in the San Gabriel Valley say they don't want to ask their residents to OK another tax -- even if it is for something as important as libraries.

But ask they must, say the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which has given 40 cities countywide until June of next year to put the issue on a city ballot or face a possible loss of library services.

The move came this week as county officials rejected a budget recommendation to cut $7.3 million from the library system, which would have forced the closure of 15 ...

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