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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=B0bmono>Yeah, libraries <U>are</U> more important than
State Parks. Sorry.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tburnett@neo.rr.com href="mailto:tburnett@neo.rr.com">Tom Burnett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=neohiopal@listserve.com
href="mailto:neohiopal@listserve.com">neohiopal@listserve.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:05
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NEohioPAL] Libraries</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=B0bmono></FONT><BR></DIV>You will make no impact at all
unless your "Don't cut off the libraries!" is accompanied by
some viable suggestion as to what to do to generate that money. Raising taxes in a down economy is a bad idea, so you're going to have to suggest which budget item
or
items should be cut to keep that $200+ million coming to the state's libraries.
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<DIV>Cut
Medicaid? Close all the state parks? Close prisons and put the convicts into crowded cells
at the other
prisons, or release hundreds or thousands of them? Cut
aid to the schools? To colleges and universities?</DIV>
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<DIV>I use my library a great deal and have always voted in favor of library
tax issues but, frankly, aid to the state's 251 public libraries would rank
below any of those things mentioned above.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 AM, <A
href="mailto:neohiopal-request@listserve.com">neohiopal-request@listserve.com</A>
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URGENT
<BR>
ACT NOW to SAVE OUR
LIBRARIES
<BR>
<BR>
<BR> Governor Strickland proposes to fill Ohio's
$3.2 billion shortfall in the <BR>state budget by eliminating
$200+ million from the Public Library Fund
over <BR>the next two years. His proposal
will have a drastic impact on all 251 public<BR>libraries in Ohio
and on Columbus Metropolitan Library in particular.
<BR>
<BR> This
proposal by the Governor cuts library funding by 50% beginning July
1, <BR>2009.
<BR>
<BR> We only have
days to have an impact.
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