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A former Ketchikan Assembly member is asking the borough to cut more than half a million dollars in funding to the community’s library. He cites the library’s decision to host a drag queen for a children’s storytime in a letter requesting the cut.

Ketchikan’s assembly to consider asking voters to cut library funding in response to drag queen eventGuest reader Luna, left, acts out a line from the book “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish” alongside Amie Toepfer, the Ketchikan Public Library’s head of children’s services, on June 17, 2022.

“The goal of this action is to stop library programs aimed at preschool and primary school aged children related to sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, thus leaving that discussion if needed to the parents,” Harrington says in his letter. as part of the library’s Pride Month schedule. The event was controversial, with some community members and elected officials calling it to be canceled.

Though the library is owned and operated by the city of Ketchikan, the borough contributes about 40% of the library’s budget through a 0.7 mill property tax on homes and businesses outside city limits.

 

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AnchorageAction To compensate, we should tax the church's that fuel such requests, and use those taxes to fund the libraries $ losses, and to aid firefighters fighting the wildfires. Problem solved. Otherwise they can keep the bigotry request to themselves.

This year is seeing intense wildfires and record low king salmon returns But nah this is clearly a top priority issue

Let’s cut funding to his neighborhood for being a little nutter.

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