| DEPARTMENT | FY 2016 Budgetary Recommendations |
FY 2016 Federal, Trust, and ISF |
FY 2016 Total Spending |
FY 2016 Budgetary Non-Tax Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Library Commissioners | 25,323 | 3,278 | 28,601 | 0 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS | 28,601,118 | |
| Budgetary Direct Appropriations | 25,322,939 | |
| 7000-9101 | Board of Library Commissioners
For the operation of the board of library commissioners |
1,098,431 |
| 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 purposes under 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; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, in calculating the fiscal year 2016 distribution of funds appropriated in this item, the board of library commissioners shall employ population figures used to calculate the fiscal year 2015 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 and requiring that physical locations be maintained 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 39.4 cents for each resident of the commonwealth |
9,692,731 |
| 7000-9402 | Talking Book Program Worcester
For the Talking Book Library Program at the Worcester public library |
438,205 |
| 7000-9406 | Talking Book Program Watertown
For the operation of a statewide Braille and Talking Book Program in Watertown, including the operation of the machine-lending agency |
2,468,121 |
| 7000-9501 | Public Libraries Local Aid
For aid to public libraries; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, no city or town shall receive any funds from this item in any fiscal year when the appropriation of the city or town for free public library services is below an amount equal to 102.5 per cent of the average of the appropriations for free public library service for the 3 fiscal years immediately preceding; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the board of library commissioners may grant waivers in excess of the waiver limit set forth in the second paragraph of section 19A of chapter 78 of the General Laws in fiscal year 2016 for a period of not more than 1 year; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, of the amount by which this item exceeds the amount appropriated in chapter 194 of the acts of 1998, funds shall be distributed under the guidelines of the municipal equalization grant program and under the guidelines for the library incentive grant program and under the guidelines for the nonresident circulation offset program; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any payment made to a city or town from this item shall be deposited with the treasurer of the city or town and held in a separate account and shall be expended by the public library of the city or town without further appropriation |
8,826,300 |
| 7000-9506 | Library Technology and Automated Resource - Sharing Networks
For statewide library technology and resource-sharing programs |
2,676,564 |
| 7000-9508 | Center for the Book
For the Massachusetts Center for the Book, Inc., chartered as the Commonwealth Affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress; provided, that the Massachusetts Center for the Book, Inc. shall be established as a public-private partnership charged with the development, support and promotion of cultural programming designed to advance the cause of books and reading and enhance the outreach potential of public libraries within the commonwealth |
122,587 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Grant Spending | 3,278,179 | |
| 7000-9700 | Federal Reserve - Title I
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Federal Reserve - Title I |
157,554 |
| 7000-9702 | Library Services Technology Act
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Library Services Technology Act |
3,120,625 |