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Resolution No: 16-179
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF COUNTY LAW LIBRARIANS' REQUEST FOR FUNDING
IN THE GOVERNOR'S 2017 PROPOSED BUDGET
WHEREAS, county law libraries provide an important public service for all California residents by
making legal materials and legally trained staff available to all its citizens; and
WHEREAS, more than 80% of litigants in matters of eviction, foreclosure, child custody and support
proceedings, and debt collection cases are without benefit of paid counsel; and
WHEREAS, county law libraries provide access to legal resources available to all self-represented
litigants in California and are an important access to justice resource in California; and
WHEREAS, county law libraries funding comes almost exclusively from civil court filing fees; and
WHEREAS, fee waivers and exemptions, reductions in the number of court filings, increases to small
claims court jurisdictional limits, alternative dispute resolution methods and other factors have negatively
impacted funding for county law libraries; and
WHEREAS, the funding for county law libraries has decreased nearly 40% below the amount received
in 2009; and
WHEREAS, the Council of California County Law Librarians has requested from the State a $16.5 million
one-time budget allocation for County Law Libraries to restore funding for a single year to the level received in
2009, which is reasonable and prudent and is without excess.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Butte County Board of Supervisors hereby supports the
Council of California County Law Librarians' request to supplement county law library budgets to 2009 levels
by inclusion of a one-time budget allocation in the Governor's 2017 Proposed Budget.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors on the 6th day of December 2016 by
the following vote:
AYES: Supervisor Wahl, Kirk, Lambert, Teeter and Chair Connelly
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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NOT VOTING: None I,
BILL CONNELLY, Ch ir
Butte County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
PAUL HAHN, Chief Administrative Officer
and Cl; , the B- .'0-of Supervisors
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