St. Albans Library Funding May Be Cut

Numbers are tight, and that may mean cuts at the Kanawha County library branch in St. Albans. The library board passed the budget this week for the coming fiscal year, and considered a lack of payments from the city of St. Albans for the library branch over the past year. They use assessed property values to come up with what’s owed, and there’s a gap after the city of St. Albans voted to reduce funding to an amount under the property value assessment. A final decision about the St. Albans branch will happen next Monday when the Kanawha County Library Board meets again.