The Multi-County Library District is hereby requested to assume the responsibility of improving the public library by supplementing the operating budget with personnel, books, films, equipment and other library materials and services, with the understanding that after the successful vote of a library levy, the multi-county library will assume support of the public library; except that, the city will continue to maintain suitable quarters for the library and provide maintenance and necessary utility services of the library quarters and may from time to time, at its option, appropriate funds for the operation and/or improvement of the public library.
(2002 Code, § 96.03)