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Resolution No. 17-172
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF COUNTY LAIN LIBRARIANS” REQUEST FOR FUNDING
IN THE GOVERNOR'S 2018 PROPOSED BUDGET AND IN SUCCESSIVE STATE BUDGETS
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 e'xclusive'ly from' civil court filing fees; and
WHEREAS,fee waivers and exemptions, reductions in the number of court filings, increases to smalll 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 budget
allocation for County Law Libraries as an ongoing budget allocation to restore to County Law Libraries the funding that
County Law Libraries received from court filing fee income in base year 2009,which the Board of Supervisors is informed
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 the inclusion of an
ongoing allocation for County Law Libraries in the California State Budget.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors on the 101h day of October, 2017, by the
following vote
AYES:Supervisors Wahl, Lambert,Teeter, and Vice Chair Kirk
NOES: None
ABSENT:Chair Connelly
NOT VOTING: None
Maur (Ik,Vice Chaff
Butte County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
Paul Hahn, Chief Administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: 1
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