Why did the Newport Public Library Board of Trustees decide to charge user fees at this time?
The Board of Trustees does not want to charge county residents a fee to use resources that they strongly believe should be freely accessible to all. However, after the defeat of the library tax referendum in the May primary, and in the continued absence of county government funding, the decision had to be made to begin the charging of user fees. Providing public library service costs money- to have free library service, local communities must help fund it for their own residents.
