• Allegheny County

          County (RAD) funds are distributed against these factors:

• Base Funding (an equal payment to every library) 15%
• Population (as % of total population using US Census every 10 years and SW PA Commission’s mid-census estimates every 5 years in between) 15%
• Distress (as % of the total population of all eligible municipalities in lowest 10^th percentile of market value per capita determined annually by the State Tax Equalization Board) 5%
• In-House Circulation (as % of system total of charges plus renewals) 20%
• Nonresident Use (as % of system total, circulation of a library’s items by a non-owning agency plus circulation of a library’s items over the desk to in-county nonresidents) 20%
• Computer Usage (total # of minutes of computer use divided into the total available minutes, as % of total) 5%
• Local Income (as % total, includes local government, in-kind, and other eligible local income) 20% 

          * The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is not included in the distribution of these funds as it receives separate funding.

• Bedford County

          State aid is distributed against these factors:

• Equal grants to each library 25%
• Local Financial Effort (as % of whole) 65%
• Population of service district 10%

          County funds are distributed against these factors:

• Base amount for system administration (determined by operating budget)
• Base amounts to each library (Altoona's allocation is determined as % of total system population, others are equal amounts)
• If additional funds available, distributed by service district population

• Berks County
• Funding Distribution
• Explanation of Funding Distribution

• Bradford County

          Funding is distributed based on 3 equal factors:

• 1/3 as equal grants to each library
• 1/3 for circulation (as % of system whole)
• 1/3 for turnover (circulation divided by collection)

• Chester County

          State and County Aid are distributed against these factors (as %'s of the total) 

• Service area population 25%
• Local Financial Effort 25%
• Market Value (inversely weighted) 25%
• Customer Touch 25%
• Circulation 50%
• Door Count 20%
• Programs 15%
• Technology (combination of computer and WiFi sessions) 15%

• Crawford County

          Moving toward funding distribution as follows:

• 40% to Meadville
• 20% to Titusville
• 40% divided equally among 7 libraries and system headquarters

• Cumberland County 

           State Aid and County Library Tax funds are allocated according to the following formula:

• Equalization 18%
• Reference Resource Centers 8%
• Circulation Desk Activity (based on 3-year average) 64%
• Resource Sharing (based on 3-year average) 5%
• Program Attendance (based on 3-year average) 5%

• Delaware County

          State Aid is distributed against a formula similar to that original state aid formula deployed by OCL.

          County funding is allocated against a formula consisting of:

• Basic grant
• Lending to unserved areas X a millage factor X price per book 

• Lancaster County
• Formula Factors 2020

• Lawrence County
• Funds are distributed based on population of service district.

• Lebanon County
• Formula Factors 2020   

• Luzerne County

          State Aid is distributed as though each library were an independent library.

          County funds are distributed against these factors:

• Basic Grant (flat amount per library) $2,500 each
• Population 60%
• Local Financial Effort 20%
• Circulation 10%
• Hours Open 10% 

• Washington County
• Current county formula based on the state aid formula (50% based on incentive, 25% equal distribution between the libraries, 25% based off of per capita numbers). 
• We are investigating other solutions including:
• Dividing up the money strictly by service area per capita
• 50% per capita, 25% equal distribution, 25% incentive
• 50% per capita, 30% equal distribution, 20% incentive

• Wayne County
• State $ is distributed same as if every library were an independent library. 
• County $ formula:
• 50% of allocation is distributed as a flat percentage: 10% to six libraries, 40% to the system HQ library. 
• 25% of allocation is distributed based on service population as a percentage of total population. 
• 25% of allocation is distributed based on items owned + total circulation again as a percentage of total population

• Westmoreland County

           Formula factors include: 

• Incentive (an average of the last 3 year of LFE. First & Second tier factors are determined by a reverse calculation with the Second tier factor being 1/8^th of the First tier) 40% . 
• Population (as % of total for system) 30% 
• Usage (a combination of hours open, circulation per hour open, interlibrary loans made, wired & wireless internet usage) 20% 
• Distress (based on the School Lunch program data) 10%