The 20,000 people who live outside city limits but inside the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District may get something new for their tax dollars—a free city library card.
“It’d be nice to see some of the money flow the other way, instead of always from us to them, a little bit from them to us,” said beach-park Commissioner Dirk Smith, who proposed asking Boca Raton to extend the library privileges.
Commissioner Earl Starkoff noted the city let district residents use Mizner Bark dog park after the district asked, but “we have since carried all the maintenance expenses.” He said the request should specify the library cards will be passed out “with no fees attached.”
Boca Raton’s population is about 86,000. Mizner Bark charges users who do not live in the city or the beach and park district $25 a month or $265 a year.
– Steve Plunkett
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