PORT ALLEN — One of the four parish-wide tax renewals on the November 15 West Baton Rouge Parish ballot is for a renewal of 4.1 mills to fund the parish Library system for 10 years, generating $3.362 million each year.

"That 4.1 mills funds 100 percent of the library. We don't have any other source of income. It is all of our funding," West Baton Rouge Parish Library Executive Director Tamie Martin said.

This is the second time this year the renewal is on the ballot, having failed back in March. After it failed, Martin said the library set a goal to educate more voters on why it's so important to them.

"I've made it my mission to go to every meeting, speak to every board that I possibly can and even hold open houses where it was just, 'Come ask me your questions,'" Martin said.

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