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Library legislative energies in high gear
January 08, 2008 06:25 PM | General, AdvocacyAnn B. Hutton, Executive Director
With the 2008 legislature convening in less than a month, the MLA Legislative Committee is concentrating on the upcoming session that starts February 12. Legislative Committee Chair, Mike Bloomberg, and the MLA/MEMO Lobbyist, Elaine Keefe of Capitol Hill Associates, recently visited House and Senate leadership and they have identified authors for the public library accessibility and construction bills. For each plank of the library legislative platform, committee members are creating “talking points” that will offer additional details when advocating for these initiatives.
The Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators (CRPLSA) will hold a pre-legislative planning session to review the current statutes pertaining to minimum levels of local support and maintenance of effort. This statewide meeting will be Wednesday, January 23 at the new Hardwood Creek Branch of the Washington County Library in Forest Lake.
Library boards, Friends’ organizations, book clubs and other groups
interested in strengthening libraries are being encouraged to endorse a resolution
supporting an increase in Local Government Aid (LGA) and County Program
Aid (CPA). SELCO and the other CRPLSA regions will coordinate the collection of local resolutions and share them with area legislators and the Governor.
