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.
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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.
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