Date Changed for Northeast Library Legislative Breakfasts
Mark your calendars!
March 12, 2004, Beverly Public Library, 8:00 AM -9:00 AM
(For communities served by NOBLE and its ILL Center)
March 12, 2004 - Haverhill Public Library, 8:00 AM -9:00 AM
(For communities served by Andover's ILL Center and MVLC)
Click on this link http://www.nmrls.org/legislative-update/invitations.html to see if your representatives have been invited.
We hope to expand attendance by hosting two legislative breakfasts and bringing them closer to some library supporters and legislators. Invitations will be mailed in February. There are five legislators with districts that overlap the NOBLE and MVLC community areas. These legislators will be invited to both breakfasts. To learn which breakfast is for you visit: http://www.nmrls.org/ill/region.shtml. However, you are welcome to attend either in the event of a schedule conflict.
Visit our web site for other advocacy events and updates, including a new session on advocacy presented on May 1st by the Massachusetts Library Trustees Association and events hosted by the Massachusetts Library Association.
http://www.nmrls.org/legislative-update/
NMRLS Event for Public Library Trustees and Directors
May 15, 2004 - site and agenda to be announced
The Massachusetts Library Association sponsors a number of events to promote library advocacy. MLA's calendar is available at: http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=MLA.
April 7, 2004
Library Legislative Day at the State House
Library Staff, Friends, and Trustees attend to hear briefings from the MLA and MBLC and visit with their state representatives and senators.
Visit MLA's Legislative Alerts page for the latest news and to identify elected officials for your address and zip code: http://capwiz.com/masslib/officials/state/?state=MA
House One Budget Released January 28, 2004
Governor Mitt Romney released the FY05 state budget. The budget figures for the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners are as follows:
State Aid To Regional Public Libraries and Library of Last Recourse*
Line Item 7000-9401
FY04---$14,980,361
FY05---$14,980,361
Board of Library Commissioners Administrative Account
Line Item 7000-9101 FY04---$891,182
FY05---$891,182
Talking Book Library at Worcester Public Library
Line Item 7000-9402 FY04---$318,777
FY05---$318,777
Talking Book Library (Perkins)
Line Item 7000-9406 FY04---$1,628,550
FY05---$1,628,550 |
State Aid To Public Libraries
Line Item 7000-9501 FY04 ----$7,339,844 with authorization of the MBLC to award in excess of the statutory ten waivers of the M.A.R. (Municipal Appropriation requirement) for FY04
FY05 ----$7,339,844 with authorization of the MBLC to award in excess of the statutory ten waivers of the M.A.R. (Municipal Appropriation requirement) for FY05
Library Technology and Resource Sharing
Line Item 7000-9506 FY04 --- $341,811
FY05--- Governor's House One budget does not contain this line item |
*The budget line that funds NMRLS
The Governor's FY05 state budget recommendations now go to the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, which will each develop its own version of the FY05 state budget. The House FY05 budget will be released in May. The Senate FY05 budget will be released in early June, 2004. A joint House and Senate conference committee will meet in late June to resolve the differences in the budget. Then the budget goes back to the Governor who has the authority to line item veto. The FY05 fiscal year begins July 1, 2004.
