Budget Conferees Trim Budget As Part Of Deal
With Governor - New Library Funding Reduced From $5 million
to $3 million
CLA News From the Capitol: 6.12.2014 by Mike
Dillon & Christina DiCaro [ Full Text ]
Last night the
Legislature’s eight-member Budget Conference Committee convened to make a
series of adjustments to many previously closed Budget items and to take votes
on several outstanding issues. One such item revisited was the new funding,
recently approved, for the California Library Services Act and the state
literacy program.
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When the issue was
reopened last night, the conferees noted that they were disappointed that they
were going to have to make a small reduction to the previous augmentation, and reduced
the CLSA by $2 million.
~ $2 million more
for CLSA (current baseline is $1.8 million)
~ $1 million more
for literacy (current baseline is $2.8 million)
~ $3.25 for the
Governor’s proposal to link all public libraries to a high-speed, broadband
network.
It was a compromise
between the Senate, the Assembly, and the Governor’s office.
The CLA believes that
these final numbers will be sent to the Governor for his signature on June 15. READ Full Text
