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Editor, News-Register:
The editorial in the Sunday (May 2) News Register titled "Don't Defund the Public Library" is spot on. The Board Members that voted in favor of this move are absolutely wrong.
The amount (approximately $300,000) that will be reduced from the Library funding is "chump change" (definition -- "a small or insignificant amount of money") in regards to the millions of dollars that the Ohio County school board is spending on building and recreational facilities. It is a meaningful amount in the eyes of the library and will seriously impact the services that they will be able to provide to the citizens of Wheeling -- who, by the way, voted in favor of being taxed to the tune of $40-50 million dollars passing a special school board funding election a couple of years ago.
The citizens of Ohio County should be outraged that this funding reduction has even been proposed and subsequently wrongly passed by the board.
Tom Dailer
Wheeling