From marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us Mon Dec 1 12:35:27 2014 From: marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:35:27 +0000 Subject: [TL-Directors] Governor's Budget Released Message-ID: Greetings Library Directors: The Governor released his Recommended Budget for the 2015-2017 biennium this morning and I wanted to share a couple of items with you: * A recommended increase of $139,769 in the Ready to Read/Reading for Success grant program that will expand the program to include 15-17 years olds and raise the minimum grant to $1,200. * Shift a State Library Specialist 1 position from donation funding to general fund As most of you know, the next step will be to present our budget request to the Legislature. We will do that before a subcommittee of the Joint Ways and Means Committee during the regular Legislative session coming up in 2015. This is a great improvement over the Governor's Recommended Budget for the State Library in 2013-2015. I appreciate all the support the State Library has received from the library community. I will keep you posted as we move through the budget process. Please contact me if you have questions or concerns. MaryKay Full Recommended Budget is available at: http://www.oregon.gov/gov/priorities/pages/budget.aspx State Library is on page I 335 MaryKay Dahlgreen Oregon State Librarian 503-378-4367 marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us http://oregon.gov/osl [StoryTime_Core.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 22930 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: