On January 6, Josephine County Commissioners voted to terminate the lease of the Grants Pass central library. Commissioners have since said they simply want to renegotiate the $1-a-year lease of the county-owned building. This comes after a legal battle last year over whether residents could opt-out of the library’s special tax district. It also follows a period of ten years in which the library system was run by a nonprofit and volunteers, rather than by the county. Josephine County Commissioner Chris Barnett and Jennifer Roberts, President of the Grants Pass Friends of the Library, join us to fill us in.

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News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/15/whats-next-for-josephine-county-libraries-after-commission-vote-to-terminate-lease/