Cate Birdseye is director at the Garrett Public Library, one of four library systems in DeKalb County. In spite of the number, residents in 11 of the county’s 15 townships live outside of a library district, almost one-third of the county’s residents. Samuel Hoffman | The Journal Gazette
By Karen Francisco, The Journal Gazette
kfrancisco@jg.net
Look for Huntington County to be a battleground in upcoming consolidation battles.
How is it possible, with a countywide school district already in place?
Because taxpayers in Huntington County support one school district, but four public library districts.
That will change if recommendations of the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform - Kernan-Shepard, for short - are approved. But Indiana librarians and trustees, whose understated political profile belies their political savvy, have been working determinedly to develop an "alternative to Kernan-Shepard's one-size-fits-all oversimplification."
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