| Account | Description | FY2016 Spending |
FY2017 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7000-9401 | Regional Libraries Local Aid For state aid to regional public libraries; provided, that the board of library commissioners may provide quarterly advances of funds for the purposes authorized in clauses (1) and (3) of section 19C of chapter 78 of the General Laws, as it considers proper, to regional public library systems throughout each fiscal year, in compliance with the office of the comptroller's regulations on state grants, 815 C.M.R. 2.00; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, in calculating the fiscal year 2017 distribution of funds appropriated in this item, the board of library commissioners shall employ population figures used to calculate the fiscal year 2016 distribution; provided further, that the board shall provide funds for the continued operation of a single regional library system to serve the different geographic regions of the Commonwealth in both eastern and western Massachusetts to serve the residents of those regions; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the library of the Commonwealth shall receive not less than 40.7 cents for each resident of the Commonwealth |
9,938,482 | 9,883,482 |
Veto Explanation: I am reducing this item to the amount projected to be necessary.