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pennywhistleCall To Action:
The Ohio Library Council has asked library staff, board members and friends to immediately contact their representative at the Ohio House of Representatives (not the Senate) and Governor Bob Taft. The House of Representatives will conclude hearings on the budget on March 17, take a two week Easter recess and return April 4 to introduce their substitute proposal. To identify and contact your legislator, click on http://capwiz.com/olc/
The time to act is now. I’ve already sent my own letter to House Speaker Jon Husted. I plan to send a letter to each House member served by our library. Information and facts about the state budget proposal will be posted to our web site shortly in case our patrons want express their own thoughts to our legislators.
Thanks for promptly contacting your representative. Use the attached information below in crafting your own message. Or you visit one of two web sites:
http://www.olc.org
http://www.protectOhiocommunities.com
Now that we have started a campaign we need a strong response. Don’t worry about trying to send a long letter that makes every point outlined below. It doesn’t have to be a typed letter. Short, to the point, and handwritten letters are very effective.
Tim Kambitsch
Ps: Today is the one year anniversary of the overwhelming show of public support for our library by voters in Montgomery County. I remember well the hard work and dedication to library service so many of you showed. It made a difference. Let’s not let the fruits of those efforts be eroded. Write that letter today and advocate that others do the same.
Message on Public Library Funding:
Public libraries have done our part during the past three years to help bail the state out of its budget crisis by enduring our own budget cuts in excess of 8%. Public libraries and the millions of patrons who use their services can accept a temporary freeze, only if the state commits to developing a reasonable, stable, and predictable mechanism to fund the libraries and local governments that provide essential services to all of Ohio's citizens.
Talking/Writing Points:
* Libraries provide essential services for our communities.
* Public libraries have been “off formula” since 2001.
* Between 2001 and 2004, public libraries have taken an 8.3% reduction in funding.
* The Governor's proposal includes an additional 5% funding reduction.
* This is more than 13% reduction in funding since 2002. At the close of this next biennium budget, public libraries will be “off formula” for almost six years.
* The personal income tax reduction proposal will impact public libraries in the next biennium, if the expectation is that we will return to the formula. It is impossible to determine what that impact will be; since we cannot reliably project income tax reviews that far into the future, but the Governor's own estimates are 21% reduction in personal income tax revenue. This means a 21% reduction in library funding.
* For those libraries that have passed local levies, the reduction in personal property tax base further erodes library funding. The Department of Taxation estimates that this will reduce property tax base by 75% (using 2005 as the base) by 2010.
Statehouse Day. Mark your calendar now to come to Columbus on Wednesday, March 16 to demonstrate support for the Local Government Funds! This is in addition to our scheduled April 27 OLC Legislative Day.
OLC is joining the county governments, municipalities, townships, villages & park districts in asking local officials and supporters to come to the Statehouse to meet with lawmakers about the Local Government Funds & demonstrate your support for Local Government Funds' funding.
A joint press conference with representatives of the local government funds will be held. In addition, public testimony is scheduled in the House Finance Committee on the Governor's proposed budget, which recommends cuts to the LGF's. The schedule for this hearing is not finalized. Please come to show your support.
More information will be forthcoming in the very near future. Please mark you calendar now to support LGF Statehouse Day on March 16 and funding for local governments, libraries, & parks. Please standup for local governments!
The Ohio Library Council has asked library staff, board members and friends to immediately contact their representative at the Ohio House of Representatives (not the Senate) and Governor Bob Taft. The House of Representatives will conclude hearings on the budget on March 17, take a two week Easter recess and return April 4 to introduce their substitute proposal. To identify and contact your legislator, click on http://capwiz.com/olc/
The time to act is now. I’ve already sent my own letter to House Speaker Jon Husted. I plan to send a letter to each House member served by our library. Information and facts about the state budget proposal will be posted to our web site shortly in case our patrons want express their own thoughts to our legislators.
Thanks for promptly contacting your representative. Use the attached information below in crafting your own message. Or you visit one of two web sites:
http://www.olc.org
http://www.protectOhiocommunities.com
Now that we have started a campaign we need a strong response. Don’t worry about trying to send a long letter that makes every point outlined below. It doesn’t have to be a typed letter. Short, to the point, and handwritten letters are very effective.
Tim Kambitsch
Ps: Today is the one year anniversary of the overwhelming show of public support for our library by voters in Montgomery County. I remember well the hard work and dedication to library service so many of you showed. It made a difference. Let’s not let the fruits of those efforts be eroded. Write that letter today and advocate that others do the same.
Message on Public Library Funding:
Public libraries have done our part during the past three years to help bail the state out of its budget crisis by enduring our own budget cuts in excess of 8%. Public libraries and the millions of patrons who use their services can accept a temporary freeze, only if the state commits to developing a reasonable, stable, and predictable mechanism to fund the libraries and local governments that provide essential services to all of Ohio's citizens.
Talking/Writing Points:
* Libraries provide essential services for our communities.
* Public libraries have been “off formula” since 2001.
* Between 2001 and 2004, public libraries have taken an 8.3% reduction in funding.
* The Governor's proposal includes an additional 5% funding reduction.
* This is more than 13% reduction in funding since 2002. At the close of this next biennium budget, public libraries will be “off formula” for almost six years.
* The personal income tax reduction proposal will impact public libraries in the next biennium, if the expectation is that we will return to the formula. It is impossible to determine what that impact will be; since we cannot reliably project income tax reviews that far into the future, but the Governor's own estimates are 21% reduction in personal income tax revenue. This means a 21% reduction in library funding.
* For those libraries that have passed local levies, the reduction in personal property tax base further erodes library funding. The Department of Taxation estimates that this will reduce property tax base by 75% (using 2005 as the base) by 2010.
Statehouse Day. Mark your calendar now to come to Columbus on Wednesday, March 16 to demonstrate support for the Local Government Funds! This is in addition to our scheduled April 27 OLC Legislative Day.
OLC is joining the county governments, municipalities, townships, villages & park districts in asking local officials and supporters to come to the Statehouse to meet with lawmakers about the Local Government Funds & demonstrate your support for Local Government Funds' funding.
A joint press conference with representatives of the local government funds will be held. In addition, public testimony is scheduled in the House Finance Committee on the Governor's proposed budget, which recommends cuts to the LGF's. The schedule for this hearing is not finalized. Please come to show your support.
More information will be forthcoming in the very near future. Please mark you calendar now to support LGF Statehouse Day on March 16 and funding for local governments, libraries, & parks. Please standup for local governments!
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:41 pm (UTC)If you're in Vandalia, we could do dinner when you get off work. I tried to call you but got your voice mail.
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:45 pm (UTC)Did you try and call my cell? It's not showing a missed call?
I'm going to try and start acting classes tonight....wish me luck!
I'll be petsitting in Beavercreek all weekend and the first part of next week if you want to get together (like cards and karaoke!)
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:47 pm (UTC)I have friends in Fairborn who are also into M:TG.
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:53 pm (UTC)I did one on the libraries in October, too. Will probably follow up next week with them, as well as villages and townships.
Rest assured, I'm doing what I can as a reporter to let the public know!
ranDOM
Date: 2005-03-03 08:10 am (UTC)But i had to stop and wonder why i don't do more? Why i don't care more. And then i realized it's because i care too much, and i realize that we've past the break line. The is no repair of this broken system. There is only destruction; followed by rebuilding. Reclaimation after Separation. The peices of the puzzle hang precarious, waiting to fall on the floor. Some people run around with bandaids trying to fix it. I wait for it to crumble so that we can rebuild. Therein lies hope.
"Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
bull-shit three ring circus sideshow"
No, this isn't pessymizm.. its the true form of optimism. I think the world will be great and humanity can be happy. But not until we tear it all down and start over.
At a certian point you realize the patient is dying, more bandaids keep the cancer from spreading.
Perhaps this is the problem, people don't think there is afterwards. If we end life, if we end the system... nothing exists. I know this not to be true. We are reborn. Life recreates itself, learns from its mistakes. It is time to learn from our mistakes and go on.
For there is hope.
And there is donuts.
And I'm that kind of bear.
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PS. I'll still send the letters.
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Date: 2005-03-03 11:48 pm (UTC)I feel you on the libraries, I honestly do. There are just so many underlying issues leading to the lack of funding TO the government, and it's all the governments fault. Penny, I'm behind you 100% I'll be writing a letter myself. If you need anything, just let me know. I'm as anti-Taft as the next person...*mumbles something about lack of school and library funding and how her cat could do a better job at restructuring this state*
Here's a story:
We used to play bingo once a week at a local bingo hall. This hall was raided about a half a year ago under, you guessed it, John Husted's request. All the computers to run their school were taken, and all bank accounts were frozen so they couldn't pay their teachers. This is a problem because 1: in order to have a legal bingo hall in Ohio you must use proceeds to support a school. and 2: they couldn't keep the school operational because of lack of funds and no computers for students. The students had to be thrown into public schools. Then just a month ago, they were shut down for good. The reason: No school. The bastards TOOK away their ability to HAVE a school. Bingo halls also pay lots and lots of money into local schools, and to the state to keep themselves open. There's your library money, there's your childrens future going out the window due to insufficient funds, and THERE'S your Ohio Government cramming their size 12's up our asses.
One more thing: John Husted is working on closing only those halls NOT operated by Catholic Churches. Is it just a coincidence that he happens to be?