San Diego Mayor Requests Cigarette Money for Libraries

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/12/1999

San Diego's Mayor Susan Golding has asked the City Council to provide libraries with money garnered from a national tobacco lawsuit settlement. Golding asserts that the city wants to build a new $103 million main library facility and using the $312 million dollars the city is slotted to receive over a 25-year period is a "very responsible way to do it." Other city officials, however, are asserting that the money should be spent on anti-tobacco campaigns, so Golding's library scheme might simply go up in smoke.