{"id":28796,"date":"2015-12-27T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bethels-kuskokwim-library-expecting-budget-cuts\/"},"modified":"2015-12-27T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:02:17","slug":"bethels-kuskokwim-library-expecting-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bethels-kuskokwim-library-expecting-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel’s Kuskokwim library expecting budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHEL \u2014<\/strong> The Kuskokwim Consortium Library in Bethel is preparing to pare down its staff and services as the state budget is likely to shrink.<\/p>\n

The whole University of Alaska system, which owns the library, is preparing to take a financial hit after Gov. Bill Walker cut about 5 percent from the university\u2019s general fund in his proposed budget, according to KYUK-AM.<\/p>\n

Library Director Cheri Boisvert Janz says the Kuskokwim University Campus has proposed a budget that cuts about 40 percent of the library\u2019s funding, mainly because the space serves more as a public resource than a university resource.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere aren\u2019t that many students here, so most of the people who come in here are from the general public,\u201d Janz said. \u201cPreviously the school had paid the bulk of the money toward the library, and with the budget cuts, they really can\u2019t anymore. There\u2019s just not money to subsidize the public library.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kuskokwim University Campus declined to answer questions about proposed budget cuts<\/p>\n

Janz says the staff will likely drop from three to two full-time positions and doors will be open for fewer hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be just not as high a level of customer service as we would like and I\u2019m sure as the patrons will like, too,\u201d Janz said.<\/p>\n

In order to keep the library full, Janz said she\u2019ll be asking the City Council for increased funding and also looking for other financial resources like grants and creating a Friends of the Library organization. Historically the city has covered about 20 percent of the library\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n

The new budget would take effect July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Information from: KYUK-AM, http:\/\/www.kyuk.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BETHEL \u2014 The Kuskokwim Consortium Library in Bethel is preparing to pare down its staff and services as the state budget is likely to shrink. The whole University of Alaska system, which owns the library, is preparing to take a financial hit after Gov. Bill Walker cut about 5 percent from the university\u2019s general fund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28796"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}