State Budget and Goodwin Library

STATE BUDGET AND OUR LIBRARY

Kenneth Wiggin, State Librarian, received a summary of the Governor's proposed budget adjustments. The Governor will seek to gain legislative authority during the upcoming Special Session to implement these adjustments. If he receives that authority, Wiggin believes the expectation is that the agencies will be asked to implement the reductions. There is, at this point, no proposed line by line budget reduction for the State Library (or any agency). But the proposed adjustments for the State Library represent a 23% cut from the budget that was approved for the next biennium. Obviously, in addition to personnel cuts, there would have to be significant cuts to library programs in order to reach the $2,670,034 adjustment that is proposed. They have not been asked for specifics and he does not have them at this time.