Another budget year and another disappointment for our library system and its patrons. Our county officials’ spending on website redesign and an energy study, with unused results, instead of providing funding needed to take county agencies off of furlough toes the line of malfeasance, a word I learned from a children’s picture book that I read at my library (“Olivia and the Fairy Princesses” by Ian Falconer). There’s no better way to shortchange every person in your community, infants to the elderly, than to inadequately fund your local public libraries.