Texas Administrative Code
Title 13 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Part 1 - TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION
Chapter 1 - LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
Subchapter C - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR ACCREDITATION OF LIBRARIES IN THE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM
Section 1.74 - Local Operating Expenditures

Universal Citation: 13 TX Admin Code ยง 1.74

Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024

(a) A public library must demonstrate local effort on an annual basis by maintaining or increasing local operating expenditures or per capita local operating expenditures. Expenditures for the current reporting year will be compared to the average of the total local operating expenditures or to the average of the total per capita local operating expenditures for the three preceding years.

(b) A public library must have minimum total local expenditures of $10,650 in local fiscal years 2013, 2014, 2015; $15,000 in local fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2018; $18,000 in local fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2021; and $21,000 in local fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

(c) Exemption: Libraries that expend at least $17.50 per capita and at least $150,000 of local funds are exempt from this membership criterion.

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