​Many ask How to Help?

Now is the Time!

  We need you to appear on Tuesday, Feb. 17th,  at the Templeton Community Services District(TCSD) meeting, 6:30 pm, in the  TCSD conference room to the right of Templeton Fire, across from the park. Corner of 5th St. and Crocker.

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We are not on the TCSD agenda, but speaking in Public Comments regarding TCSD's decision to accept Templeton resident's tax funds from SLO County to fund Templeton Library. SLO County received our request for tax funds and reached out to TCSD for their agreement.​

Please join us in advocating for the library.

In your own words, what the library means to you and your family. Our bullet points:​

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• ​Templeton residents pay 1.6% of their property    taxes for library services that fund 14 county branches—not Templeton Library.  

• SLO County has collected that money for 45 years, after the original Templeton Library was closed in 1979.

• Templeton deserves its own library - one that is walking distance to 4 of 5 TUSD schools. 

• In its 3 years of operation, Templeton Library has outperformed other small county libraires in circulation, active patrons collection size.

• The county library budget is $13.5 Million. Our request for $318,000 is the tax that Templeton TCSD residents pay for library services annually —  less than 3% of the library budget.​​

• TCLA is asking that the annual $318,000 tax SLO receives be directed to Templeton Community Service District to operate Templeton Library.  

• Lack of tax funding prevents Templeton Library from applying for state and federal funds. 

• The county promised a 50-50 agreement to build   a new library in Templeton but then had no funds to match residents' fundraising.