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Issue: # 15
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April 6, 2009
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Where is the Federal Economic Stimulus Money for Libraries? Ask Your State Officials!
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Sunday's Chicago Tribune reports Chicago will receive nearly $200 million in city road repairs. Besides the road money, Chicago area mass transit is slated to receive $900 million from the state.
Education Week just published the requirements for use of stimulus money by schools.
We know there
is $374 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's (ARRA)
State Fiscal Stabilization Funds for the governor's discretionary use.
This funding is flexible and the control rests in the hands of the
governor on how the funding is allocated in the state. It is those
funds that we are hoping the governor will allocate to repair and
modernize library buildings and to keep our doors open or extend hours,
hire staff, purchase materials to meet the increasing needs, etc.
What can you do?
- Call the governor and ask for some of those funds for libraries!
- Call your elected official and ask to be placed on the agenda for your regional 2009
capital hearing. While the hearing's intent is to take testimony on
what are the most important transportation funding priorities, the
library community is encouraged to remind our elected official about
our needs. Ask them where are the federal economic stimulus funds for libraries? Ask them to include libraries in any potential state capital projects funding. You might want to bring a copy of the Illinois Library Shovel-Ready Construction/Renovation Projects.
The schedule for the remaining hearings are as follows:
April 6, 10:00 a.m., UAW Hall, 112 N. Second St., Rockford, Ill.
April 6, 6:00 p.m., Northbrook Library Auditorium, 1201 Cedar Ln., Northbrook, Ill.
April 8, 10:00 a.m., Chicago: South, Simeon Career Academy Auditorium, 8147 S. Vincennes Ave., Chicago, Ill.
April
8, 6:00 p.m., South Suburbs: South Suburban College, Kindig Performing
Arts Center, 15800 S. State St., South Holland, Ill.
April 15,
10:00 a.m., Decatur: Schilling Community Education Center, Richland
Community College, One College Park, Decatur, Ill.
April 16, 6:00 p.m., Chicago: North, Austin Town Hall Audiorium, 5610 W. Lake St., Chicago, Ill.
April 16, 6:00 p.m., Chicago: West, Advocate Illinois Masonic
Medical Center, Olson Auditorium located 836 W. Wellington Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.
For further information, please contact Representative John Bradley (D-117, Marion), phone: (217) 782-1051 or (618) 997-9697.
- Share your experiences with the ILA Advocacy Committee chair Lee Logan, phone: (309) 694-9200 x2112; fax: (309) 694-9230;
e-mail: llogan@alliancelibrarysystem.com
If we want additional funds for our libraries, we need to ask, we need to advocate for them, we need to be included with the groups that are receiving those funds, for example, transportation and schools.
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Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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