New Law Brings Financial Stability to the Bridgeport Public Library

And a 7-day-a-week schedule for the first time since 1989.

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New law brings millions to Bridgeport library. (Hartford Courant, 11/25/2011)

Excerpt: These are some of the changes made possible by voters, who in a referendum two years ago approved a new law by which the city must create a library fund and appropriate one full mill of funding to the library system. In recent years, that has meant a roughly $6 million allotment.

Besides affording the libraries another roughly $2 million a year, the referendum ended the guessing game the library board often had to play about the amount the city would appropriate.

Fixed costs can now remain fixed. Once-ignored needs can now be addressed and long-term investments -- like new branches -- can be planned.