The Escanaba Public Library will be fully funded in the city’s 2022-23 budget. The Escanaba City Council decided during a special meeting Monday that it would not cut $147,000 from the library’s budget. The city is addressing a $1 million shortfall. But Librarian Carolyn Stacey told the council that the library could not sustain a 40 percent cut in its budget.

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