Since

1930

FRASER VALLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY

System Meadquarters: 2469 Montrose A venue, Abbotsford, British Columbia 28 372
Telephone 604-859-714]

Howard Overend, Director

wor ol OU NC

MAR 2 4 1977

FINANCING THE FVRL: A PROPOSAL

It is clear that the erating
costs of the F on i éeds revision.
Recent meeting

taken by some of the m @ budget
indicate an east-west is far removed from

the regional concept of all for one and one for all that
has served the regional library well for more than 43 years.
At the present time the western municipalities, looking
forward to probable independence and ultimate membership

in the Greater Vancouver Library Pederation, are finding
budget increases more Palatable than eastern municipalities
who, while recognizing the need to maintain and expand
library services to some degree, do not feel it necessary
to advance as quickly as those in the west.

From the time the regional library was Organized and began
Operations in 1934 as a tax~supported System, all costs have
been shared on the same basis by the municipalities. In

the beginning it was on a per capita basis and was later
changed to half per capita - half on a mill rate based on
general property assessments. Since 1975 it has been

wholly on a mill rate.

For unorganized areas, i.e. the rural non-municipal parts
of school districts, the cost-sharing is based on a mill

rate applied to assessments for regional library purposes
and is paid to the Board of Management by the provincial

Surveyor of Taxes.

Under the current system, all Operating costs are totalled
and apportioned to municipalities in ratio of their
respective assessments. This has led to unevenness in
relating costs to services provided.

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