Robb wants funds for S.C. library: Mayor says city should benefit if bond issue is approved

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Organizers of the effort to build a new library in downtownCharleston have not gone far enough, South Charleston Mayor RichieRobb said.

Robb has asked the board of the Kanawha County Public Library togive assurances that the South Charleston library would get somemoney if a bond issue is put before county voters and approved.

South Charleston's library is not a part of the county system, butRobb said it should benefit because residents there would be payinghigher taxes like everyone else.

"If they are expecting South Charleston people to vote on it andaffect their taxes, then some of it should come to South Charleston,"Robb …