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FINANCE OF REGIONAL SYSTEMS -- BUDGETS -- PARTICIPATING AND
NONPARTICIPATING UNITS. Each regional system may be financed by any
combination of available funds, federal, state, local, public and/or private.
Counties, cities and library districts are hereby authorized and empowered to
join in the creation, development, operation and maintenance of regional
systems, and to appropriate and allocate funds for the support of such
systems. All funds collected or contributed for the support of each regional
system shall be controlled and administered under the direction of the system
board, following procedures outlined in the library district statutes, and as
directed by the state library board.
(a) Participating Units. Participating boards shall continue to control
the funds appropriated or contributed for the support of the participating
libraries, but may expend all or any part thereof for library services to be
furnished by the regional system. Each participating board shall prepare its
own annual budget as required by the Idaho Code, and said budget may include
anticipated revenues or expenditures for regional system services. Tax levies
made pursuant to each such budget shall be certified as provided by law.
(b) System Budget. Each system board shall prepare a preliminary budget
for the system for the coming year, and shall by the last day of April forward
said budget to the boards of participating libraries. This budget shall be
published, and a hearing held thereon before the last day of May.
(c) Non-Participating Areas. The system board shall also prepare a list
of those areas within each county of the library region wherein public
libraries, library districts, school-community libraries, or association
libraries are not maintained as authorized in the Idaho Code. Such lists shall
be forwarded to the state library board and to the board of county
commissioners of each affected county. The system board shall include in its
preliminary budget an estimate of the kinds of services which the system could
provide to those areas without established libraries, and the cost of such
services, and shall forward this to the appropriate boards of county
commissioners.

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