DRIPPING SPRINGS — Twenty-five years ago, the Dripping Springs Community Library (DSCL) opened the doors to its 9,500 square-foot facility with approximately 900 members. Now, with more than 13,000 members, leadership believes that an expansion is the best way to properly serve the community and is in the process of raising funds for a 37,000 square-foot building.
The library, according to DSCL capital campaign manager Sarah Rose, is unique in that it is a library district, one of only 15 in the state of Texas. This means that the library is not governed by the city, county or state, but rather by an elected board of officials, and is funded by sales taxes instead of property taxes.
“The sales tax historically has covered the operating budget for the library,” said Rose. “The last few years, we’ve had an overage of sales tax versus our expenses and we’ve been intentional about that, so we could save away this overage for a new building that the library needs.”
