By Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall
Let’s “pull back the curtain” on Morley Library.
It appears that transparency is not a strong suit of Ms. Martinez, or the Directors of Morley Library.
Here is the Lake County Auditor’s Schedule A showing the one property tax levy for the Lake County Library District, a.k.a. Morley Library.
Here are the taxing districts paying for library:
Director Martinez earns $113,630 per year, and Ms. Norman receives $72,723 per year.
Here is a write-up from their audit report that provides some details of employee benefits. It is strange that the Director said that they do not have a list of employee benefits, but their audit report had this detail.
Here is the big finale – their financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2025 showing receipts and disbursements.
Please note that they received $1,126,687 from the property taxes.
They earned $626,443 on their cash investments.
Their cash balance as of December 31, 2025 was $14,181,280!!!!!
Shame on the Board of Director’s for not even considering the plight of Lake County taxpayers being priced out of their homes because of the ever-increasing property taxes.
This shall not stand.
We are calling on the Lake County Budget Commission to do their job and provide the checks and balances, recently afforded to them by the State Legislators, needed to protect the interests of Lake County taxpayers. Lake County taxing authorities are outgrowing the private sector’s ability to pay for services.
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