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<span style="color:black">Today, Governor Whitmer released her third executive budget, centered on equitably growing the state’s economy by expanding skills training and childcare for families, providing a further down payment on rebuilding the state’s crumbling
bridges and water infrastructure, and helping small businesses recover from the pandemic. All combined, the full budget is just over $67 billion.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">The budget and staffing levels for the Library of Michigan within the Department of Education is located within the General Fund budget and remains flat from FY21 to FY22. State Aid
for Libraries remains at $13,067,700. (Below is a screenshot from page 78 of the budget – linked at the end of this communication. The first column is FY21, the second column is FY22)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">In addition, there is $100,000 budgeted in the Department of Education
</span>to create and support a state poet laureate who will travel the state meeting with teachers and students to promote poetry, the spoken word, and literary arts to a new generation of young students.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">To view the full Budget, click here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/budget/Budget_Bill_General_Omnibus_715976_7.pdf">https://www.michigan.gov/documents/budget/Budget_Bill_General_Omnibus_715976_7.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#698424">Deborah E. Mikula</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Executive Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Michigan Library Association</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">3410 Belle Chase Way, Suite 100</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Lansing, MI. 48911</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office: 517-394-2774, ext. 224</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cell: 517-404-3533</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:dmikula@milibraries.org">dmikula@milibraries.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.milibraries.org">www.milibraries.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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