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State librarian urges maintaining $12.8M library capital request as DLS recommends cut to statutory level
Summary
DLS recommended reducing the Maryland State Library Agency public-library capital authorization to the $7.5M statutory level; State Librarian Morgan Miller urged the committee to keep the governor's supplemental funding because rising construction costs and deferred projects would otherwise slow or cancel needed new libraries and renovations.
DLS told the subcommittee that the Maryland State Library Agency's FY27 capital request seeks $12.8 million in general‑obligation bonds for public library capital grants, exceeding the statutory $7.5 million annual allocation by $5.3 million and that requested out‑year funding could consume most planned funding through FY30.
Natalie Andrade of DLS recommended reducing the FY27 GO bond authorization by $5.3 million to align the program…
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