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Originally Posted by Grace Elliot
Is it true that Birmingham city council have taken funding away from the small, local libraries in order to finance this one?
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Not quite, as I understand it.
Funding for the new library was agreed before the need to cut council costs was realized. It wasn't dependent on cutting other library costs. The cuts to existing smaller libraries came later, as a result of those cuts. It wouldn't have been as simple as just diverting the funds at that stage. That would have almost certainly led to no new library
and cuts to existing facilities.
I know that logically that makes no sense, but it seems to be the way bureaucracy works!