Calhoun City Council members announced their intentions to support the local library by paying the $4,000 to the library board this year that is usually provided by Calhoun City Schools.

City and County officials received word from the school systems earlier this month stating that the schools would not be able to contribute the money. County commissioners agreed previously to provide the county school’s contribution.

“The library has really grown in the last eight years,” Mayor Jimmy Palmer said.

Council Member David Hammond called the number of adults he observed using computers at the facility on a week day “staggering.” He said the library provides valuable services to adults using the Internet to look for work in a troubled economy.

“I think we have a great library … we have a lot of kids that use it,” stated Council Member Ray Denmon.

Utilities

Council members also approved two contract amendments with MEAG Power during their Mon-day, Sept. 14 meeting.

An amendment to the combined cycle power sales contract changes how fuel use is billed, ex-plained City Utilities Director Kelly Cornwell. MEAG customers originally paid for fuel in advance each month. Now, they can pay after the fuel is burned and can also finance fuel on a longer-term basis, he said.

The other amendment, made to the municipal competitive trust, provides for “additional flexibil-ity” for new generation project funding and capacity purchases, as well as “the funding of the pur-chase of additional entitlement share or obligation share of existing MEAG Power projects and for mitigation of certain bulk power supply cost increases,” according to the amendment.