A generous hike in its proposed collections budget will allow Miami Dade Public Library System to buy more books and databases this year for its 49 branch libraries. Thanks to rising real estate valuations, if the budget passes as it now stands the system will also be able to make urgent infrastructure repairs and add a number of new programs and services that will support the library’s growing role as an educational community center.
The library system receives $28 of every $100,000 of a property’s taxable value. “The millage remains the same,” said Gia Arbogast, the county library system’s director, “but because the value of properties has increased, we could see as much as a $5 million increase to the library’s tax rolls.”
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