The smallest of the three bonds, $20 million for library materials across the state. The stewardship questions are identical to its companion measures: a real but borrowed sum, repaid through property taxes. Libraries are a long-standing public good, and the figure is modest. As with the other bonds, the discipline is to weigh the concrete benefit against the debt, and to remember that approving all three is approving the full $280 million package. Decide each on its merits and on your tolerance for property-tax-backed borrowing.
"A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels."
— Proverbs 1:5 (KJV)