Survey of Impact of Reinvention Bill

The Library Service Areas and the State Library of Iowa are collecting information about the impact of the Reinvention bill on Iowa's public libraries' budgets, and we ask your assistance by filling out an online survey.  We appreciate that you have many reports to fill out at this time of year, but it is important that we collect data from all public libraries in Iowa and we ask your patience in filling out one more report.

The survey is to be completed online.  Directors of Iowa public libraries will receive the URL from their Library Service Area Administrator.  The survey should be completed at one session, and only one per library.  The questions are listed below, so you can gather the information before you go to the survey on the web.

1. City name:
2. What was your city appropriation for FY04 before the Reinvention Bill (i.e., the budget certified in March)?
3. What is the library's city appropriation after the Reinvention Bill?
4. What percentage of the city's total budget did the Reinvention Bill cut represent (if you can find out from your city)?
5. What was your county appropriation for FY04 before the Reinvention Bill? 
6. What is your library's county appropriation after the Reinvention Bill?
7. Are you reducing your hours as a result of the cut?
8. If yes, how many hours per week were you open last fiscal year?
9. If yes, how many hours per week are your open this fiscal year?
10. Are you reducing personnel, or hours worked by personnel?
11. If yes, how many FTE's are being cut?  (An FTE = 40 hours/week.  To figure FTEs, add the number of  hours worked in one week by all personnel and divide by 40.)
12. 12.  Are you cutting your materials/collection budget?
13. If yes, how much money is being cut?
14. Are you cutting your programming budget?
15. If yes, how many children's programs are you cutting?
16. If yes, how many adult programs are you cutting?
17. Are you making other cuts?
18. Please describe:
19. Are you adding or increasing any fees this year?
20. If yes, how much additional annual revenue do you anticipate this will generate?
21. Describe the impact of budget cuts on your patrons, including any stories or anecdotes:

Thank you very much!
Iowa library Service Areas
State Library of Iowa