page_title: Christian County, Missouri
section_title: Tax Approval
hierarchical_section_title: Christian County, Missouri / Public libraries / Christian County Library System / Tax Approval
caption_attribution_description: English: The front of the Nixa branch library is depicted. The library is brick and immediately meets a parking lot.
context_page_description: Christian County is located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, its population was 77,422. Its county seat is Ozark. The county was organized in 1859 and is named after William Christian, a Kentucky soldier of the American Revolutionary War.
  Christian County is part of the Springfield, MO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Between 2000 and 2010, it was the fastest-growing county in the state and one of the fastest growing ones in the nation as the county became more suburban due to the booming growth in Springfield.
context_section_description: On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, voters in Christian County approved to instate a 20-cent property tax levy. Sixty-eight percent of the voters approved the tax. Before this tax, the library was only able to operate one branch for the whole county. To accommodate new housing and population growth in the county, CCL announced their intentions to construct and/or open new branches around the county. The tax approval also allowed for a renovation of the original Ozark Branch. CCL expects eighty-five percent of the population in Christian County to be within a five mile radius of the library after all intended branches are opened. 
  Christian County Library
  Billings City Library
caption: Christian County Library Nixa Branch
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