AshtabulaGuy writes “Mark Tuscano reports in this morning’s edition of Ashtabula’s own The Star Beacon that local State Senator Marc Dann (a Democrat from Liberty Township in Trumbull County) as well as State Senator Eric Fingerhut (a Democrat from the City of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County) have drafted a counter-proposal to the executive budget proposal made by Governor Bob Taft that was pored over by the Ohio House. Senator Dann stated last week in an unplanned phone call to WFUN AM Today with Roger McCoy that he considered the budget passed by the Ohio House to be a “train wreck”. Although it appears that cuts to libraries present in the version passed by the Ohio House are being kept in the Dann-Fingerhut counterproposal an additional conundrum for libraries is also presented. A “Local Government Innovation Fund” is being proposed in the Dann-Fingerhut counter-proposal that would restore funds cut from local governments (including libraries) if they would undertake to consolidate three or more separate local governments. Based upon press reports such conceivably also includes libraries which would mean that three or more library districts would have to consolidate to have funds restored to them by way of the Local Government Innovation Fund. In light of local governments discussing such in Cuyahoga County and right after Syracuse University announced that it would partner with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to offer a further Ohio opportunity for graduate librarianship studies, Christine Borne wrote to consider the Syracuse-CWRU matter as well as practical effects of consolidation.
Considering all of such it is also important to note that that The Star Beacon also mentions in an Associated Press piece that Ohio is also facing a looming population decline which may cut into readership and patronage down the road for Ohio libraries.”
AshtabulaGuy writes “Mark Tuscano reports in this morning’s edition of Ashtabula’s own The Star Beacon that local State Senator Marc Dann (a Democrat from Liberty Township in Trumbull County) as well as State Senator Eric Fingerhut (a Democrat from the City of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County) have drafted a counter-proposal to the executive budget proposal made by Governor Bob Taft that was pored over by the Ohio House. Senator Dann stated last week in an unplanned phone call to WFUN AM Today with Roger McCoy that he considered the budget passed by the Ohio House to be a “train wreck”. Although it appears that cuts to libraries present in the version passed by the Ohio House are being kept in the Dann-Fingerhut counterproposal an additional conundrum for libraries is also presented. A “Local Government Innovation Fund” is being proposed in the Dann-Fingerhut counter-proposal that would restore funds cut from local governments (including libraries) if they would undertake to consolidate three or more separate local governments. Based upon press reports such conceivably also includes libraries which would mean that three or more library districts would have to consolidate to have funds restored to them by way of the Local Government Innovation Fund. In light of local governments discussing such in Cuyahoga County and right after Syracuse University announced that it would partner with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to offer a further Ohio opportunity for graduate librarianship studies, Christine Borne wrote to consider the Syracuse-CWRU matter as well as practical effects of consolidation.
Considering all of such it is also important to note that that The Star Beacon also mentions in an Associated Press piece that Ohio is also facing a looming population decline which may cut into readership and patronage down the road for Ohio libraries.”
Ohio Budget
It always saddens me to see where education/library issues fall in this county. When will the government realize how important an educated population is.