July 2021
Changes in California State Library General Fund Spending
2021-22 (In Thousands)
Ongoing Spending | |
State Operations | |
Administrative support (10 positions) | $1,148 |
Restoration of employee salaries | 915 |
Online digital database of governmental records | 460 |
Data and systems librarians (3 positions) | 345 |
State grants web portal (2 positions) | 314 |
K-12 online database (2 positions) | 241 |
Assistive technology for visually impaired patrons (2 positions) | 220 |
California Homeless Youth Project manager (1 position) | 130 |
Transfer Oral Histories Program to Secretary of State | -75 |
Technical adjustments | -95 |
Local Assistancea | |
California Library Services Act restoration funds | $1,750 |
Zip books | 1,000 |
Broadband costs | 500 |
Transfer Oral Histories Program to Secretary of State | -150 |
Subtotal | ($6,703) |
One-Time Spending | |
State Operations | |
Assistive technology for visually impaired patrons | $1,641 |
Online digital database of governmental records | 1,640 |
Disaster preparedness for cultural resources (6 positions)a | 835 |
State grants web portal | 500 |
Local Assistance | |
Library infrastructure grants | $439,000 |
Collaborative broadband projects | 35,000 |
San Francisco Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative property acquisition | 26,500 |
English as a second language programs | 15,000 |
Outreach Grants to Ethnic Media Program | 10,000 |
Online tutoring for K-12 students | 6,400 |
Inland Congregations United for Change Parent and Youth Civic Engagement | 6,000 |
Broadband connectivity | 6,000 |
Civil Liberties Public Education Act | 5,000 |
Early learning and after-school programs | 5,000 |
Mobile libraries | 3,000 |
Career Online Education | 3,000 |
Logan Heights Library facilities restoration | 2,400 |
California Humanities | 2,000 |
Disaster preparedness for cultural resourcesb | 1,552 |
Broadband carryover | 1,303 |
Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center | 1,000 |
Grants for LGBTQ sites | 750 |
San Francisco Richmond Community Youth Center capital project | 500 |
California Center for Civic Participation | 200 |
Subtotal | ($574,221) |
Total | $580,924 |
State Operations | 8,219 |
Local Assistance | 572,705 |
a Early action legislation (Chapter 4 of 2021) also provides the Lunch at the Library program $800,000 ongoing General Fund beginning in 2020-21. | |
b According to the administration, these amounts will be appropriated annually for four years, for a total amount of $9.5 million over the four-year period. | |
LGBTQ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. |