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

Tue Jun 30 10:48:37 EDT 2020

There will be a meeting for FALSC staff today, we can wait on sending this out until later this afternoon once we hear more from FALSC. But we should have Deborah's message at the ready. Hopefully Elijah's message got enough university admins to make phone calls and some of that money will be put back into the budget. 

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

#yiv7155169413 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}I really feel that we should wait. Elijah only sent this out to the deans and directors. I'm sure that many of us who work on standing committees are aware of these developments, but I don't think we know what the attitude of FLVC/FALSC is for wide distribution at this point. I assume that the Board of Governors and the Council of Presidents will be weighing in as well. 

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 I just read everyone's messages, please review what Deborah wrote and provide feedback and suggestions for a statement we can send out to FACRL members, unless you feel we shouldn't send anything out
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sophospsmartbannerendI just read everyone's messages, please review what Deborah wrote and provide feedback and suggestions for a statement we can send out to FACRL members, unless you feel we shouldn't send anything out yet?
Alyssa
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:30 AM Alyssa Koclanes <koclanan at eckerd.edu> wrote:

Thank you Deborah for drafting this so quickly! I think this would be good to send to the FACRL members and FACRL listserv.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 9:41 AM Deborah Prosser <DPROSSER at rollins.edu> wrote:

Alyssa,

Time is of the essence.  How does this sound:

“Yesterday Elijah Scott, Executive Director of FALSC, learned that the governor vetoed the entire Complete Florida Plus Program funding, which includes all funding for the Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC).  See below:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://floridapolitics.com/archives/344583-gov-desantis-signs-corona-impacted-state-budget-vetoes-more-than-1-billion__;!!PhOWcWs!g9nnDzkYwn8LSHQfsOGEYIGhTMpQgrL88GIQksSVqJTDx9oTZEKQzcZ1TwmlMCiO2NuFbHCjqw$  

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.” 

If this change stands, FALSC may not survive, which would be devastating for Florida’s libraries.  Elijah urges: “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.”

As members of the FACRL board, perhaps we should unite in a message to the Governor’s office as well as considering other measures of support?

Deborah

Deborah Prosser, Ph.D.

Director of Olin Library

Rollins College

dprosser at rollins.edu

From: Alyssa Koclanes <koclanan at eckerd.edu>
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Subject: Re: FW: [Lib-seniorleadership] FW: Governor Has Vetoed Complete Florida Plus Program / FLVC / FALSC

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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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Alyssa Koclanes, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Technical Services, Serials, and Instruction Librarian

Eckerd College Library

727.864.8460

Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South 

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
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Hello Friends,

I have just learned that today the Governor vetoed 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!g9nnDzkYwn8LSHQfsOGEYIGhTMpQgrL88GIQksSVqJTDx9oTZEKQzcZ1TwmlMCiO2NuFbHCjqw$  

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

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