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Orem library details 2025–26 budget priorities: part‑time pay raises, makerspace expansion, higher collection funding
Summary
Library staff outlined the tentative 2025–26 budget priorities to the commission: accelerated part‑time pay increases (~$40,000/year), more part‑time hours for Makerspace (≈50 hours/week), an increase to collection development budgets (about $60,000 this year, $100,000 over two years) and tactics to reduce fine revenue.
Bryce, library staff (presenter), reviewed the library’s priorities in the tentative 2025–26 budget and described operational and staffing changes planned if the city council adopts the budget. He said the city’s revenue mix — a low property tax base and heavy reliance on sales tax — makes budgeting more variable and that city capital demands reduced CIP funds available to departments.
On staffing and pay, Bryce said the library will convert some associate positions to librarian classifications (Meg FlindersPay to programming librarian; Matt Kemmerer to makerspace…
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