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Budget Workshop August 17, 2004 Page 7 charging a fee in the County. Ms. McAnally said Denison Library had been charging a $40.00 fee for outside the city since November of 2003 and they have sold between 200 to 300 cards. She said Grayson County has five libraries in the County. She said she has 10,700 patrons outside of the City, of which 8465 are adults and 2305 are under eighteen. Ms. McAnally said this does not historically increase the revenue as expected. Councilman Wilson said it would take about a year to know how we stand after we start this. On a question from Councilman Wilson, she said she could cut the book budget down to $100,000.00 and still stay in NETLS. This would allow her to keep three of her workers part time, which would allow them to put back some of the services, but not all. She said she had approximately thirteen volunteers. Finance Director Anderson said the cost to keep three people part time would be $45,953.00 and the decrease in the book budget was $45,000.00. Mayor Fendley instructed City Attorney Schenk to bring back an ordinance assessing a fee for out of City library user households, as well as out of County. Ms. McAnally felt $40.00 was too much to charge because some families could not afford that. Finance Director Anderson related that he received the revised Certified Tax Roll from the Appraisal District which resulted in an additional cost to the budget of $86,935.00. Public Works Director Terry Townsend estimated the total of cost of maintenance if they were to go through with the Trail at Lake Crook $10,000.00-$15,000.00 per year. Finance Director Anderson said to cut two employees from the Garage and