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Community Libraries of Providence ask council to maintain level funding in FY26 budget
Summary
Library director and advocates told the Finance Committee that maintaining the current level of city funding is essential to receive full state aid and to keep neighborhood branches open and staffed.
Cheryl Space, director of the Community Libraries of Providence, told the Finance Committee May 6 that the library system needs level funding in Mayor Smiley’s proposed FY26 budget to preserve recent service increases and to qualify for the full state grant in aid.
Space asked the finance committee to maintain a $255,000 increase the libraries received in the prior budget cycle and said the city’s…
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