Joan Retsinas and Maureen Romans held a Zoom meeting on December 8 to rekindle interest in advocating for changes in the State library Funding formula and formulate an action plan.
Pre-COVID, the Providence League of Women Voters, with the concurrence of the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island, adopted a position urging the state to make the funding of libraries more equitable.
Reimbursement funding formulas are known to penalize poor communities, and that is how RI provides funds for municipal libraries. Although legislators are sympathetic to the State/Providence League's efforts to work for change, the RI Library Fund
