For the past six months, the Fairhope Public Library has been fighting to have state funding restored after the Alabama Public Library Service board suspended the aid claiming noncompliance with state code.

Ralph Chapoco of the Alabama Reflector reported Monday that over half of that annual funding—about $22,000—is officially gone, distributed by APLS to other libraries in Baldwin County.

APLS Chair John Wahl, also head of the Alabama Republican Party, told APR Monday that the library missed a June 30 deadline to reach compliance and that the staff and board members of the Fairhope Library should have known that the funding for the fiscal year would not be available.

“This is not a new process. This is well-established. You have to be at compliance at third-quarter distribution,” Wahl s

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