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Deer Creek library may not close for week
DEER CREEK — The Deer Creek District Library may shelve plans to close for one week — if property tax money is released to the district next week. “If the checks are sent by Tuesday, we could make payroll,” library director Carlene Mathis-Kull said Thursday. In a letter to Tazewell County Treasurer Duane Gray, Mathis-Kull said the district “is having an extremely difficult time financially caused by the delay in receipt of our property tax revenue.” The library district board considered closing the library for one week to reduce expenses until tax revenue was disbursed, said Mathis-Kull. She said next week’s anticipated payment will allow the library to meet Friday’s payroll. The library has a $65,000 annual budget. The treasurer blamed the delay in tax receipts on the county’s slow progress in hiring a new supervisor of assessments. The post has been vacant since last year. “I personally believe that nothing is being accomplished to straighten out our tax problems in Tazewell County, even though information is being distributed that (says) progress is being made,” Gray said in a written response to the library board. County Administrator David Jones said Thursday the two-month delay in collecting taxes involves several factors, including changes in farmland assessments. Jones said the assessor’s duties are being covered by staff in the assessor’s office. Interviews will be scheduled in the coming weeks for a new supervisor of assessments, said Jones. Next week’s payment will be the first of three installments made to taxing bodies for 2006 property taxes collected in 2007. Jones said about $83 million has been collected so far. E-mail this story | Print this story | Search archives | RSS Show comments |  Hide comments | Hide comments on all stories |
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