ASSEMBLY
BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES $10 MILLION “STATE
LIBRARY BUDGET PACKAGE”
CLSA
and Literacy programs would benefit from new money
May 21: Hearing
Approved:
~ $2.25 Million for public
library broadband proposal
~ $1 Million in grants to help libraries connect to CENIC
“State Library Budget
Package” $10 Million in new funding for public libraries:
Approve the May Revise Request for $192,000 and two positions
$2 million - California
Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program
$8 million - California
Library Services Act
The Department of Finance indicated that they could not
support the additional $10 million as it would create greater cost pressure on
the state’s General Fund. The issue passed on a bi-partisan vote of 5-0 (Aye: Muratsuchi,
Chavez, Dababneh, Nestande, and Ting).
The Senate
Budget Subcommittee has no additional funding in their Budget for these two
programs.
This will force the issue into the Budget Conference Committee (the
members have been appointed yet) process.
~ will likely begin convening at the end of next week or the
first part of June
~ send a Budget bill down to the Governor by June 15, the
constitutional deadline
Look for additional report early next week; “next steps”; and
contact information for the members of the Budget Conference Committee.
Full Article
CLA-News From the Capitol: 5.21.2014 by Mike Dillon &
Christina DiCaro
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