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Legislators
Issue Letter in Support of Increasing State Library Funding
CLA News From the Capitol:
5.07.2015 by Mike
Dillon, Christina DiCaro, CLA Lobbyists
A
bi-partisan group of Assembly members and Senators in the California State
Legislature have sent a
letter to the two Budget Subcommittee Chairs and key Budget leaders, to
encourage them to adopt an increase in funding for public libraries
in the 2015-16 Budget. The letter
features an impressive list of legislator library supporters and is attached
for your information.
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This
year’s Budget, proposed by Governor Brown in January, did not carry forward the
$3 million mentioned above or the $1 million for “connection grants”, as we
have previously reported. CLA has
launched an effort again, in conjunction with Assemblyman Gatto and his
colleagues, to encourage the legislature to include $11.5 million in the Budget
for public library funding for “connection grants” to the CENIC backbone,
funding for the CLSA, and funding for the state literacy program.
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The
Governor is expected to release his “May Revision” of the Budget on May 14th
and it will reflect the most current revenue projections, based on tax receipts
from January through April 30 and other key factors. After reviewing this new information, the
budget subcommittees will then begin closing out their work prior to the
Memorial Day weekend and will forward their recommendations to the full Budget
Committees. If CLA is not able to get
the budget subcommittees to recommend that new funding be added to the State
Budget for public libraries, it will be very difficult to get money into the
Budget in the weeks that follow. READ MORE !
