The following excerpt is from a much longer article about the acquisition of a new microfilm reader/printer for the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library in Greenville, Tennessee.
The Greene County Commission’s
Records Committee was told Thursday that because of a missed deadline, the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library will not get the city and county funding needed to purchase a new microfilm reader/printer for the library.
The Town of Greeneville had promised to allocate $1,000 for the purchase of the reader/printer, but the one company that bid on it in December missed the deadline the town had imposed to receive bids.
That bid apparently came in 24 hours after the deadline, according to Don Miller, director of the genealogical library. The two other companies contacted by the city did not submit bids for the reader/printer, Miller said.
The Greene County government had already allocated $3,500 for the purchase of the new reader/printer for the library. Based on the commitment from the county, the city had agreed to “front” an additional $2,500 that they would later deduct from the city’s budget for the genealogical library, in the next fiscal year, chairman Kevin Morrison said.
Read the full article by Nelson Morais in the February 13, 2009 edition of the Greenville Sun.