Will the Senate Ways & Means Committee’s proposed supplemental budget for the current biennium (SB 5403) eliminate only 10 staff positions (FTEs) from the State Library?
No, over 60 positions will be cut. Had the Committee cut the same amount of money last session, the State Library would have had to cut only 10 FTEs over an entire fiscal year to achieve the targeted savings. However, the Committee is imposing the cut in the last two months of the current biennium, so 62 positions must be cut to achieve the same level of savings. If passed as proposed, SB 5403 would eliminate 62 librarians and library assistants, not just 10.
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