UPDATE Thursday, July 2

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  • The House Finance Committee on Thursday, July 2, will begin hearings on what harm an additional $933 million in budget cuts would do to Ohio’s needy.
     
  • They would like input from citizens as to how the cuts will affect them.
     
  • Governor Strickland's Video Conference from July 2.
     
  • Governor Strickland has reaffirmed his desire to cut libraries.
     
  •  The letter he recently released in answer to the activity about his proposed cuts: http://www.governor.ohio.gov/LibraryLetter/tabid/1108/Default.aspx
     
  • Currently libraries are "rightsized to the economy". 
     
  • As tax revenue goes down, so does public library funding.  
     
  • In 2009 libraries have already incurred a 20% reduction from our 2008 funding levels.
     
  • The governor is proposing an additional 30% for the remainder of 2009 and all of 2010.
     
  • NEW Share your library story here.
     
  • Please continue to contact our legislators, please thank them for honoring their commitment to fund the Public Library Fund with 2.2% of Ohio's tax revenue.
     
  • Governor Strickland’s budget proposal cuts funding for the state’s libraries by more than $100 million a year.
     
  • ACDL, along with many other libraries, will have to reduce hours and cut service drastically if this proposal is approved by the Legislature.
     
  • The governor is proposing that the funding for all of the 8 public libraries in Ashtabula County will be approximately the amount that Ashtabula County District Library received in 2001. 

     

 

   
Contact the Governor Contact Representative Deborah Newcomb
Contact Senator Capri S. Cafaro For more information
   

Continue to the Ashtabula County District Library Website

   
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