[Publib] Mesa, AZ, prop tax measure fails

[Miriam Bobkoff]

Joe Schallan wrote:

> The measure was voted down resoundingly yesterday,
> and this morning the Arizona Republic reports that
> approximately 30 city employees will be greeted with
> pink slips when they arrive at work this morning.  How
> many of those 30 are in the library, I do not know at this
> point, though earlier articles suggested that the
> first wave of cutbacks would be shared by parks, library,
> etc.   So I'm sure a few librarians or library assistants
> are being directly affected this morning.

Golly, Joe. That's a catastrophe. What happens to the pink-slipped people,
does their insurance stop instantly as well as their income? 

How do all the left-behind colleagues get the work done?

'Resoundingly' is such a discouraging fact. What kind of city is it that the
voters' children will be growing up in, and the voters themselves growing old
in? What were they thinking?

Miriam B.
Santa Fe Public Library
       another place where city government operates on sales taxes and not
property taxes, and part of the city council wants the Friends of the Library
to fundraise for our operating expenses, but so far we've never had lay-offs...