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JFAC approves $2.58 million federal and state funding for library digital access, approves language restricting state funds for DEI activities
Summary
Committee approved operating grants and a digital access grant for Idaho libraries, but rejected a substitute funding motion and approved language directing commission priorities and prohibiting use of state funds to support diversity, equity or social justice ideology in library activities; votes were divided and several roll calls recorded.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved funding and multiple policy language items for the Idaho Commission for Libraries on Thursday, including a $2.58 million package of state and federal funds to support digital access programs and related grants, and several pieces of committee language that set conditions on how state appropriations are used.
Budget analyst Brooke Dupree outlined three requests from the commission: $42,400 for broadband reimbursement to eligible libraries under the Education Opportunity Resource program; $30,000 in federal subgrants (from an available $40,000 federal grant), and a $2.5 million federal request for the Digital Access for All Idahoans grant. Senator Carlson and representatives moved and…
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