Prop D: Take a Look, It's In A Book!

Proposition D is a library bond initiative. Let's be clear: we love the public library. Sure, the main building is a little weird looking and they've been restoring it for two years and it functions as a daytime homeless shelter, but...everything in there is free, and if you are trying to find something, the staff knows pretty much everything. The city library is a fantastic resource, and functions a heckuva lot better than, oh, say, MUNI (until Prop A passes, of course!). This initiative addresses the funding for the Library Preservation Fund by diverting some money from property taxes and giving the SFPL the ability to issue bonds.

We're leery of blank-check bonds and the proposition's license to borrow in a kind of indefinite manner, but how many other things on the ballot have the support of the Mayor and the entire Board? If both Ross and Gavin get together on something, it can't be all bad, right? There's probably a better way to do this (there are three more city elections until the Preservation Fund expires in 2009), but will another ballot measure actually pass? Will people get sick of the library and just vote "no" out of exhaustion if more measures come to the ballot?

That's the conundrum. We'll probably vote yes, just because most of the right people seem to be for it.

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