Legislative Update

This afternoon Governor Pawlenty line-item vetoed $208 million from the bonding bill that was passed by the Legislature last week. A total of 52 projects were vetoed. The good news is that no library projects were vetoed. Because the MLA legislative listserv was down last week, my update on the bonding bill bounced. It did go through on the MEMO listserv. For those who did not receive that update, the bonding bill included the following amounts for library projects:

Library Accessibility and Improvement Grants: $1.5 million
Northland Community and Technical College: $7.8 million
Minnesota State Community and Technical College - Moorhead: $2.5 million
Hennepin Technical College: $2.4 million
Minnesota State University Moorhead: $400,000