Tell the Ohio House: Don’t Cut Ohio Libraries!
Ohio’s libraries are facing an unprecedented challenge in the Ohio House of Representatives, and we need your help. Use the links below to email Columbiana County House Members and House Speaker Huffman TODAY urging them to restore the Public Library Fund to the amount designated in the Governor’s proposed budget.
How will the House’s version of the budget impact Ohio?
- The Ohio House of Representatives’ biennium budget proposal eliminates the Public Library Fund, a mechanism that has funded 251 public library systems for four decades.
- Ohio House Members plan to replace the Public Library Fund with a lump dollar amount for all Ohio libraries, which will result in cuts to libraries across the state.
- The Public Library Fund has remained flat for 25 years and House Members have put forward a dollar amount that does not account for a quarter of a century of inflation.
- Lepper Library depends almost solely on the PLF for our funding.
If you want your tax dollars to come back from Columbus to support public libraries across the Buckeye State, use the links below to send a message to all our Columbiana County House members and tell them why the Library is important to you.