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| | | 1. The option of holding a referendum to totally exempt the library from all tax cap limitations: |
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| None | Some | Considerable | Response Total | | Value to your library: | |
| 4% (4) | 22% (22) | 74% (75) | 101 | | Likelihood your library would place this issue or an issue of this type on a ballot: | |
| 44% (45) | 45% (46) | 12% (12) | 103 | | Total Respondents | 102 | | (skipped this question) | 1 |
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| | | 2. The option of holding a referendum to exempt a portion of the local levy from tax caps (such as state mandated pension costs): |
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| None | Some | Considerable | Response Total | | Value to your library: | |
| 12% (12) | 36% (36) | 52% (53) | 101 | | Likelihood your library would place this issue or an issue of this type on a ballot: | |
| 40% (40) | 43% (43) | 18% (18) | 101 | | Total Respondents | 101 | | (skipped this question) | 2 |
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| | | 3. The option of holding a referendum to change the current tax cap index (the lesser of 5 percent or the CPI) to a more favorable index. |
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| None | Some | Considerable | Response Total | | Value to your library: | |
| 3% (3) | 28% (28) | 69% (68) | 99 | | Likelihood your library would place this issue or an issue of this type on a ballot: | |
| 29% (29) | 49% (49) | 22% (22) | 100 | | Total Respondents | 100 | | (skipped this question) | 3 |
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| 25 | | (skipped this question) | 78 |
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| | | 5. As a result of tax caps, has your library been: |
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| Yes | No | Response Total | | Forced to close/cut hours? | |
| 24% (23) | 76% (74) | 97 | | Reduce book/materials budgets? | |
| 47% (47) | 53% (52) | 99 | | Lay off staff or reduce their hours? | |
| 28% (27) | 72% (69) | 96 | | Cut Internet connectivity or reduce technology? | |
| 15% (14) | 85% (82) | 96 | | Total Respondents | 100 | | (skipped this question) | 3 |
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| | | 6. Have you experimented with other approaches to cost savings not listed in number five? If so, please comment. Show detailed responses. |
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| Total Respondents |
| 39 | | (skipped this question) | 64 |
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| | | 7. Has your library held a referendum under the tax caps? (if the answer is no, please skip to question nine). |
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| | Response Percent | Response Total | |  | 47.9% | 45 | | | 52.1% | 49 | | Total Respondents | 94 | | (skipped this question) | 9 |
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| | | 8. Did the referendum pass? |
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| | Response Percent | Response Total | | | 68.1% | 32 | | | 31.9% | 15 | | Total Respondents | 47 | | (skipped this question) | 56 |
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| | | 9. Please describe any other specific reductions, effects, or especially dire situations or stories arising from the imposition of tax caps? Show detailed responses. |
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| 43 | | (skipped this question) | 60 |
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