County Commissioner Arlene Cooke doesn’t get her dander up very often but last Monday, near the end of the county governing board’s six-hour meeting during which it passed a $388 million budget, she couldn’t sit by and let one item go unchallenged.
After hours and hours of discussion and votes and more discussion and more votes, and after a vote to increase the county’s property tax rate for the first time in almost a decade, 4th District Commissioner Kathy Danner – who represents a small part of the city in addition to Cool Springs and the southeast portion of the county, made a request that the county discontinue its support of the Brentwood Library. That support is $71,000 for the 2011-2012 fiscal year budget.
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Susan Leathers is editor of Brentwood Home Page. Click here to read previous columns. Email her at susan@brentwoodhomepage.com
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