County to supplement library funding

Tyler Lowey
Times Reporter

 

With libraries viewed as an integral part of municipal community life, Wheatland County councillors felt concerned that provincial funds awarded to the libraries were not covering the necessary maintenance issues or repairing of the buildings.
On Sept. 6, council voted to support a borrowing powers document for regional library systems at the Central and Alberta Municipal District meetings.
There is a crucial need to help the systems maintain the facilities where their resources are housed. The Marigold library building is in serious need of repair and the proposal provides a framework for joint efforts by the province, municipalities and the library systems to meet their financial and service goals.
“We will talk to other members,” said Wheatland County CAO Alan Parkin, who indicated the motion would go to the central district meeting in Acadia set for October 2016.
For more information on the proposal, see the County website attachments under the Sept. 6 agenda.