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Public School Library Collection Development Grants (Sec. 14.56.360 through .375) Pre-certification
The Alaska Public School Library Collection Development grant is a law that was signed last year – but not funded. It would give up to 3000.00 per qualifying school for collection development. It requires matching funds from schools and salaries, benefits, and budget monies directed at libraries all need to be reported.


a: the grant has not yet been funded so this money is still theoretical b: if schools do not pre-certify it could reduce the funding amount for all schools involved in the grant state wide because the funding request will not be adequate

We were not able to get this funded through the legislature this year. The State Library is trying to get it added as a line item to their budget. This requires that they have a clear idea of how many schools will qualify. If they don’t ask for enough funding, all schools will receive less funding.

The pre-certification packet is going to be mailed to principals after school is out and to help make sure that all schools get pre-certified, a “cheat Sheet” was sent out on Thursday. If you fill out all the info on the sheet and give it to your principal with an explanation of what is coming, you have a much better chance of getting the paperwork in. If the paperwork is made available electronically before Friday, I will send it and you can fill it out for the principal and they only have to sign it and send it.

There will be another chance in Aug. to get the pre-cert paperwork in but I don’t see the first 2 weeks of school being any better than the last week. Anything you can do to help this process along would be appreciated.

I am running the item count reports and emailing them to you (they are coming from Unicorn) and if you get me your gross salary and if you have an aid, theirs, I can help by getting the grants office to help with finding out the $ amount of benefits.

Please send Ann immediately a: Your gross salary b: Names and gross salary for any assistants (If they don’t know please send their names – the grant office may be able to look it up anyway.)

This information will be used by me and one of the grants staff to figure out your $ amount for Benefits which is a required piece of the pre-certification paperwork for the School Library Collection Development (SLCD) grant. Once I have the Benefit info back to you I will be deleting all records on my computer. The SLCD – if we can get the funding added to the State Library budget – will provide up to $3000.00 per qualifying school for collection development.

The pre-certification paperwork will go to the State library and be viewed by the SLCD committee to determine how many qualifying schools they need to budget for in their funding request for next year. The pre-certification paperwork asks for your name, job description, salary and Benefits. The Salary and Benefits are part of the required matching money from the school district for qualifying schools. **I checked with the State Library and grants will not be accepted without this information.**

How do we find out what our internet service provider fees are? Federal or otherwise? GCI is the provider. Fees are bulk rate paid through the district

Do we have to include any building operations figures? Building operations is provided through an administrative/building budget not part of the library budget