County staff search archives to determine whether library's 2.5 mills were voted or allocated

County staff told commissioners they are still determining whether a 2.5-mill amount historically associated with the library was a voted mill or an internal allocation. The classification matters because voted mills are capped differently and may not reduce the mills available to other county services if handled separately.

Mary Anne said her review went back to the late 1990s and that some records may predate available digitized archives; she and staff said they were going through physical books and vault files to find the original ballot or appropriation language. "The information that I found up until '98, I interpreted as they were all voted mills," she said, but staff cautioned that different professionals may reach different legal interpretations and that legal counsel might be needed to defend any reclassification.

Commissioners directed staff to continue the search and to bring documentation to a follow-up session. No final determination was made at the meeting.