Relates to the administration and funding of the town of Ballston Community Public Library; provides for the election of trustees and the approval of a budget; authorizes the Ballston Community Public Library to impose certain taxes; allows the Ballston Community Public Library to be eligible for certain financing of facilities for public libraries.
Directs the state librarian to establish statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the state librarian to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
Provides that for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year, the library materials factor shall be eleven dollars; provides that for each following school year, the library materials factor shall be determined on an annual basis to reflect the percentage increase in the consumer price index.
Directs the department of education to establish and maintain a registry of historic libraries and museums in the state that have operated for over fifty years; lays out criteria; makes related provisions.
Directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to study the frequency of residents who are being assessed library taxes for more than one library and to make recommendations to address the double taxation of residents.
Relates to conducting a study on the access of state public libraries and library systems to capital funding; the department of education, in consultation with the dormitory authority, the office of the state comptroller, and the public library systems of the state, shall assess and report on the capital needs of such public library systems, including public libraries and association libraries.
Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library at twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality.