from WLA Newsletter 3/21/25
2025-20257 State Biennial Budget Process: A Chance to "Stand Up" for Wisconsin Libraries |
WLA members play a prominent role in advocating for state library aid funding. We'd like to extend an invitation for you to get involved - and all you have to do is show up and stand up!
WLA is advocating for several items in the proposed 2025-2027 state budget, including an increase in public library system aid and cost-to-continue increases for core library services including BadgerLink, Newsline for the Blind and state resource contracts for the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library, AutoGraphics and inter-library loan access to Milwaukee Public Library and UW-Madison collections.
For more background on the 2025-2027 biennial budget process, please click here. For a list of 2025-2027 JFC members and the libraries in their districts, click here.
Mark Your Calendar! Public Budget Hearings
Starting April 2, four public budget hearings with members of the Joint Finance Committee will take place in locations around the state. Each session will take place from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The LD&L members listed below as site captains will coordinate participant recruitment and messaging, provide more detailed orientation, and select one or two speakers for each location.
All WLA members are invited to attend these public hearings. Literally standing in a group behind your colleagues who speak earns them 5 minutes of testimony time (as opposed to only 2 minutes allotted for testimony by a person standing alone). WLA attendees who are constituents of one or more JFC members earn extra smiles! Please get in touch with the site captains if you are available to attend one or more of the following hearings. Plan to arrive at the site by 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday, APRIL 2 – Kaukauna 1701 County Road CE, Kaukauna 54130 WLA Site Captains: Rebecca Scherer rscherer@mcls.lib.wi.us Tracy Vreeke tvreeke@nflsoffice.org
Friday, APRIL 4 – West Allis Wisconsin State Fair Park, Exposition Center (Parking at Gate 4) 640 South 84th Street West Allis, WI 53214 WLA Site Captains: Steve Heser steve.heser@mcfls.org Pete Loeffel ploeffel@wauwatosalibrary.org Bruce Gay bgay@waukesha-wi.gov
Monday, APRIL 28 – Hayward 10320 Greenwood Lane Hayward, WI 54843 WLA Site Captains: Katherine Elchert kelchert@northernwaters.org John Thompson thompson@ifls.lib.wi.us
Tuesday, APRIL 29 – Wausau Center for Health Sciences – map/parking 1000 W. Campus Dr. Wausau, WI 54401 WLA Site Captains: |
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