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HEARING - Library Department recommending the Board:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 152-2025 setting for election a measure proposing renewal of the Library Special Tax in County Service Area 10, Zone F, South Lake Tahoe at the June 2, 2026, primary election to replace the expiring library special tax; and
2) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 153-2025 setting for election a measure proposing renewal of the Library Special Tax in County Service Area 10, Zone G, Georgetown at the June 2, 2026, primary election to replace the expiring library tax.
FUNDING: Library Special Taxes.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On August 12, 2025, with Legistar file 25-1381, during a presentation from the Library Funding and Sustainability Ad Hoc Committee, the Board provided direction for the Library Department to return to the Board with Resolutions setting for election measures proposing renewal of the Library Special Tax in County Service Area No. 10, Zone F, South Lake Tahoe and Zone G, Georgetown at the June 2, 2026, primary election for a term of twenty years.
The Board of Supervisors established the South Lake Tahoe Zone of Benefit (Zone F) and the Georgetown Zone of Benefit (Zone G) within County Service Area No. 10 for the purposes of providing library services within those zones on August 1, 1995. On November 7,1995 voters approved a benefit assessment to support the South Lake Tahoe Library by 72.4% and the Georgetown Library by 62.4% for a period of ten years. Benefit assessments required a simple majority vote for approval. The benefit assessments expired on June 30, 2005.
On November 30, 2004, the Board of Supervisors proposed a special tax within Zone F and Zone G to support the South Lake Tahoe Library and the Georgetown Library for an additional period of ten years. Voters approved the South Lake Tahoe Library tax by 81.5% and the Georgetown Library tax by 71.6%. Special taxes require approval by 2/3 of the voters. ...
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