Pass: 2,751 / 69.5% Yes votes ...... 1210 / 30.5% No votes

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If approved by 2/3 of the City's voters, Measure L would impose a special tax on all parcels of real property in the City. The annual tax rates would be $62 per parcel for single-family residences, $46 per unit for multi-family properties, $8 per space for mobile home parks, 2.9 cents per square foot of building for commercial and industrial properties and $17 per acre for vacant land. The tax would be collected each year on the annual property tax bill.

The revenue raised by Measure L could be used only for the design, construction and furnishing of the new Library, including the cost of financing the project. This revenue could not be spent for salaries or any administrative cost for the library. The law requires that revenues from Measure L be placed in a separate fund, subject to an independent audit each year with the results of the audit reported to the public. The tax would be collected only for the time necessary to repay any money the City might borrow for the new library project or 30 years, whichever occurs earlier, and would automatically sunset at that time.

The City Council could not extend the duration of the tax or increase the amount of the tax without a 2/3 vote of the people. Certain properties would be exempt from paying the tax, including government property, property exempt from taxes under State or federal law, and properties owned by low-income senior citizens and disabled people who apply to the City for an exemption.

A "Yes" vote on Measure L favors imposing the parcel tax to pay for the new Monrovia Library. A "No" vote opposes it.

City of Monrovia

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San Marino Tribune

• Monrovians Pull Together in Plan for New Library - 1/8/2007

• Yes on Measure L Committee

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Over the years the Library has been enlarged and reorganized to its structural limits; its aging systems repaired so often they can no longer handle the job. Built for just 50,000 volumes, it is inadequate to handle the 120,000 books in today's collection, with little room for periodicals or other media.

Yet the demand for Library services here is large and growing. Well over 100,000 items are circulated each year and many more requests for materials are made than can be accommodated in the limited space available. Last year alone, 3,000 new computer users registered to use the Library's few workstations, 25,000 reference-related questions were answered by staff and, this summer, 3,000 young readers devoured 55,000 books!

Measure L will cost residents just $62 per year, never a penny more, and will build a modern facility twice the current size, capable of handing today's and tomorrow's technology, designed to maximize effi cient and comfortable use in an impressive and appropriate building.

For just $5.17 per month, the equivalent of two tall lattes, Monrovians can have the new Library they have been seeking for more than a decade. We strongly urge a YES vote on Measure L.

Rob Hammond
Mary Ann Lutz
Tom Adams
Joe Garcia
Daniel J. Kirby

(No arguments against Measure Monrovia-L were submitted)