[LIBRARYDIR] FYI State Library Budget Update

[Simmons, Rand]

Good news indeed. Thanks, Tim. Dancing the dance of joy but quietly. Shh. This is a library.

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> On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Fuhrman, Tim <timf at bigbend.edu> wrote:
> 
> Here is an update on the budget shortfall situation with the WA State Library.  Sounds like good news to me. - Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lane, Greg [mailto:greg.lane at sos.wa.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 12:30 PM
> To: Sue Ammeter; 'Jan Walsh'; 'Jennifer Wiseman'; mjc59 at comcast.net; 'Kristy Coomes'; 'Elena Bianco'; 'Jan Ames'; Fuhrman, Tim; Miller, Danielle; McKinley-Camp, Toni; 'randman51'; 'WLMA President'; 'Craig Seasholes'; cmpecks at gmail.com; carolyn.logue at comcast.net; Walsh, Maura; Lentz, Crystal; 'Denise Colley'
> Subject: House budget proposal
> 
> Some of you might have seen this already, but Kim and our Executive Team were pleased that the operating budget proposal released by House Democrats this morning, as we hoped, did include backfill for the $2.4 million shortfall in the Heritage Account for the State Library, and the backfill was funded by a $1 increase in the recording fee.  
> 
> Next up is the Senate Republican proposal, which we anticipate will be released the middle of next week (though an exact date has not yet been announced.)  As I've mentioned previously, we expect the backfill will also be in that plan, though it most likely will come from a general fund appropriation, not the fee increase.
> 
> As we don't yet know what day the Senate R proposal will be released, I'll leave it up to the group to decide if the conference call scheduled for Wednesday should be postponed to later in the week.  I'm happy to participate whenever you prefer.
> 
> On a related note, the House Capital Budget proposal was also released this morning.  As some of you know, we had requested $750,000 to conduct a feasibility study on a new building to collocate the State Library and State Archives.  The house proposal provided $250,000 for that project.  We are fairly confident the Senate R proposal will include the full $750,000, but will see when it is released.
> 
> Greg
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