sentences:  Library funding as a percentage of the town operating budget declined from 5.1% in 2004 to 3.0% in 2007, and to 2% in 2011.Total expenditure increased from about $770,000 in 2004 to about $1,000,000 in 2011.A consultants' report on Ontario municipalities prepared in 2010 ranked Whitchurch-Stouffville ninth of eleven Ontario communities in its population category for per capita library spending (based on 2009 data).