[Fla-facrlboard] FW: [Lib-seniorleadership] FW: Governor Has Vetoed Complete Florida Plus Program / FLVC / FALSC

Tue Jun 30 10:41:03 EDT 2020

I do think a general statement from FACRL should be made today that includes the link to the public news article on details of the budget cut, and some implications and impact on higher education across the state that it has, as well as some basic action items to take. We should be increasing awareness of this and asking members to reach out to the governor's office. 
I'm am certain that the governor had little, if any, knowledge of what the "Florida Plus Program" is. The fact that the such a vital program was given that completely vague name is a travesty in itself. 
This impacts so many things - the Alma ILS implementation and the management and support of the unified catalogs, just for starters... This would cost each institution millions each year without FALSC. Money that most libraries are already having to cut out of their budgets, not add. 

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 On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Marino, Mark via Fla-facrlboard <fla-facrlboard at lists.fsu.edu> wrote:

 #yiv4917037070 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hi Craig, Elijah sent out messages yesterday and today to the Members Council. I'm unaware that any other communications have been sent out to FLVC listserv. All deans and directors should have received the documentation that Elijah sent out. I think it should not be forwarded until there is more from Elijah. 

Mark Marino, MA, MLIS

Collection Development Librarian

Technical Services Supervisor

State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

5840 26th St. W.

Bradenton, FL 34207

941.752.5317

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Subject: RE: [Fla-facrlboard] FW: [Lib-seniorleadership] FW: Governor Has Vetoed Complete Florida Plus Program / FLVC / FALSC Good morning,   I received a call from my Dean last night and we are in discussions with the President and Provost at BC today. We are watching closely for any updates and hopefully FALSC will co
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Good morning, 

I received a call from my Dean last night and we are in discussions with the President and Provost at BC today. We are watching closely for any updates and hopefully FALSC will coordinate with the full consortium to respond. Has anyone received anything new since the announcement of the line-item veto? 

I think it’s a good idea to coordinate with FALSC for a state level response from FACRL, though we need to get the word out to our membership and let them know to immediately bring this to the attention of upper administration across the state. Perhaps Deborah can just forward the full message from Elijah to the list verbatim? 

Thank you, 

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I think any statement needs to be coordinated with other stakeholders. Elijah continues to send documentation to MCLS regarding the services provided by FALSC, cost avoidance afforded by the statewide e-resources budget and group licensing, potential costs for individual institutions to pay for a new ILS, etc. 

Library deans and directors are being encouraged to bring this information to their college and university administrators. 

Mark Marino, MA, MLIS

Collection Development Librarian

Technical Services Supervisor

State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

5840 26th St. W.

Bradenton, FL 34207

941.752.5317

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Subject: Re: [Fla-facrlboard] FW: [Lib-seniorleadership] FW: Governor Has Vetoed Complete Florida Plus Program / FLVC / FALSC

Hi Mike, I was not aware of this, thank you for bringing it to our attention.  Deborah, as our legislative liaison could you draft a message that we can send on behalf of FACRL?  Thanks, Aly

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Hi Mike, 

I was not aware of this, thank you for bringing it to our attention.  

Deborah, as our legislative liaison could you draft a message that we can send on behalf of FACRL? 

Thanks, 

Alyssa 

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Eckerd College Library 

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Eckerd College
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St. Petersburg, Florida 33711 

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 9:02 AM Michael Meth <mmeth at fsu.edu> wrote:

Hi FACRL board, 

Concerned message from a recent board member and former legislative liaison here.  While I am no longer on the FACRL board, I wanted to bring to your attention the email (copied below) from Elijah at FALSC yesterday.

TL;DR if funding is not approved for the Complete Florida Plus Program, there may not be a FALSC tomorrow.

I don’t need to tell you what that would mean for all of our academic libraries, and more importantly for all the folks working at FALSC. This story is evolving as we speak and you may want to follow along. 

I am sharing this note to encourage FACRL to reach out to the governor’s office. Perhaps we can even get ACRL to lobby on behalf of FALSC.  Maybe place your own calls. Get your university’s admin engaged.

Best regards, 

Mike 

From: Elijah Scott <EScott at FLVC.ORG>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 3:05 PM
To: FLVC-LS-MEMBERS-COUNCIL at LISTSERV.FLVC.ORG
Subject: [FLVC-LS-MC] Governor Has Vetoed Complete Florida Plus Program / FLVC / FALSC
Importance: High 

Hello Friends, 

I have just learned that today the Governor vetoed the entire Complete Florida Plus Program funding, which includes all funding for the Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC).  The Governor’s transmittal letter can be found at 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://floridapolitics.com/archives/344583-gov-desantis-signs-corona-impacted-state-budget-vetoes-more-than-1-billion__;!!PhOWcWs!kZ8qeCW0XCqqHmf5OmMLdaRULrX2wh4H68uaEL0ZSC_KUd2RVuGs6JIgPgpCKyAbMzPCzMMGtQ$  

Within the embedded PDF document, page 16 shows the veto for “Specific Appropriation 161A, Aid to Local Governments – Grants and Aids – Complete Florida Plus Program, From General Revenue Fund: $29,390,671.” 

We will update you all as we know more about this situation. 

In the meantime, we believe it would be helpful if each of you could contact your administration to make them aware of this veto and of the importance of restoring the Complete Florida Plus Program funding back to the budget in order to preserve FLVC, FALSC, and DLSS.  

Thank you, 

Elijah 

***PLEASE NOTE THAT FALSC AND FLVC STAFF WILL BE WORKING REMOTELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  All FALSC and FLVC operations will continue as usual.  For fastest response time, please contact me via this email or contact the FLVC Help Desk at Help at flvc.org.  Thank you***

Elijah Scott

Executive Director

A unit of FLVC

1753 West Paul Dirac Drive

Tallahassee, Florida

P: (850) 922-3188 

W: libraries.flvc.org

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