Libraries in the Georgia cities of Rossville, LaFayette, Chickamauga and Trenton will only be open 30 hours a week — roughly a 25 percent reduction — under cutbacks approved this afternoon by the Cherokee Regional Library Board.
Three people will lose their job, three will lose their benefits and nine will have their hours reduced.
The cutbacks, which take effect July 1, were made due to an $83,000 budget shortfall caused by an increase in state health insurance costs and a reduction in funding from the Walker and Dade county school districts.
While the library system hasn’t decided for sure, it’s most likely that the four libraries will be closed on Monday and Wednesday, Library Director Lecia Eubanks said.
Read more in Wednesday’s Times Free Press.
Tim Omarzu covers Catoosa and Walker counties for the Times Free Press. Omarzu is a longtime journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at daily and weekly newspapers in Michigan, Nevada and California. Stories he's covered include crime in blighted parts of metro Detroit and Reno, Nev.; environmental activists tree-sitting in California's Sierra Nevada foothills; attempts by the Michigan Militia to take over a township¹s government in northern Michigan. A native of Michigan, ...
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