05/01/1979 - Packet TIGARD PUBLIC LIBRARY
12568 S.W. Main St.
Tigard, Oregon 97223
LIBRARY BOARD
Agenda for May 1979
1 . Call to order
2. Reports
a. Minutes
b. Monthly report for April
3. Old Business
a. Meeting time
b. * Sei,ial levy contract
c. SB 31
d. Budget Committee
e. Computer up-date
f. Friends of the Library Bazaar
4. New Business
a. Book complaint
b. Friends of the Library monthly book sale
TIGARD PUBLIC LIBRARY
12568 S.W. Main St.
Tigard, Oregon 97223
MEMORANDUM
May 14, 1979
TO: Library Board
City Council
FROM: City Librarian
SUBJECT: Monthly Report, April 1979
1 . Administration:
a. Librarian has continued to attend meetings concerning the county
computerized circulation system. Work continues on the specifications and
the timetable remains the same.
b. Library Board held its regular meeting April 9. Minutes are attached.
c. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program concluded the week prior
to April 16. A total of nineteen persons were assisted.
d. Staff members attended various sessions of the Oregon Library Association
conference April 18 through April 21 . Jean Carlisle, Board member, attended
the trusttes session on April 20. The Library was manned completely by volun-
teers on April 20 so that staff could attend special workshops.
e. Librarian presented 1979-80 budget to the City Budget Committee
on April, 19. The new county serial levy will provide $76,724 and a request
for $38,020 was made to the City.
f. Librarian did not attend Washington County Cooperative Services
professional board meeting for April. Minutes show no action was taken or)
matters previously reported in this report and/or affecting Tigard Public
Library.
g. Library was closed April 30, May I and 2 so that staff could work on
some backlogged projects. Volunteers came in also to keep the book drop
clear, shelve and file.
2. Personnel:
a. Volunteer hours totaled 140, averaging 5.6 per day.
3. Statistics:
a. Circulation 7013
Books 6430 Magazines 347
Adult—4691Audio-Visual---113
Juven 1739 Other 19
Interlibrary Loan 104
b. User cards issued158In-Town 70,-- Out-of-Town-88-
c. Story Hour 12.5 average (Wed & Thurs preschool)
StartRight—Day School 16
d. Materials added 328
Adult Fic 50 Juvenile Fic-13
Adult Non---Fic 62 Juvenile Non-:Fl-c 10
Adult Paperback164Juvenile Paperback 19
Large Print10 -
e. Materials withdrawn-0
Tigard Public Library - Monthly Report, April 19`79
f. Money Received:
Fines $9.80
Lost Books $8.95
Donations $3.00
4. Programs;
a. A special program on decorating Easter eggs was held at the Library
on April 13. Twenty-four children with 5 parent helpers participated.
Age group included 3-year-olds to ten-year-olds.
b. Friends of the Library held their, "Early Bird Bazaar" on April 28
at the C.F. Tigard elementary school. Proceeds from table rentla and books
amounted to more than $300. This was held in lieu of the book sale at the
Tigard Town and Country days in August.
INCOME TAX LIMITATION/PROPERTY TAX REBATE PROPOSAL
Proposed: For submission to State Representative Norm Smith, with
approval of the Tigard Area Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs
Committee.
Prepared: By members of Public Affairs Subcommittee on Tax Reform
(Bruce Clark, chairman; Pat Newman; Deb Fennell; Alan Mickelson)
Assisted: By resource persons Raeldon Barker and Aldie Howard (City of
Tigard) , Chief Russell Washburn (TRFPD) , Public Affairs Chairman
Bill Elliott, and Chamber staff with input from Chamber general
membership via opinion poli.
Findings and recommendations: +
1. Sufficient property tax limitations currently exist with regard to
financing of government operations at the county, city and special
district levels. These local coffers should not be the target of
additional limitation measures.
2. Limits on increases in state spending and personal income taxation
should be achieved through the following indexing methods:
a) Increases in state government expenditures should be curtailed
by indexing the rate of state budget growth to the rates of
increase in average personal income and population,
b) State income tax tables should be re-indexed to account for cost
of living impacts on the increase. in average personal income.
3 . Property tax relief should be provided directly from the state
general fund, to all property taxpayers (including renters) , in the
following manner:
a) The state would refund 50/ of all individual property tax payments
up to a ceiling of $1,500.
b) Increase in the $1, 500 property tax refund ceiling would be indexes
to the annual rate of increase in property valuation in the State
of Oregon.
4. Additional tax relief and state spending curtailment would take
place in the following manner: Any general fund surplus which exists
after budget requirements have been met and after the aforementioned
tax rebate program has been implemented, would be refunded to income to
payers, proportional to the amount of income tax which they originally
paid.
5. No new forms of taxation should be considered by the Legislature at
this time.
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6 . The p' eo'ple within any government jurisdiction must retain the
discretionary power to tax themselves beyond any established
limitation.
7 . A simple majority vote should be considered sufficient for
passage of any new local tax or for an increase in any
existing local tax. The same simple majority requirement
should apply to passage of state tax measures by the Legislature.
8. Such property taxes as currently exist or as may be established,
in the future should be assessed according to the true cash
value of individual properties. Artificially established
assessments would merely create an inequality in the distribu-
tion of the property tax burden. Therefore, no rollback of
assessments, no limitation on assessment increases, and no
limitation on millage rates should be considered.
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