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 10th 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.
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
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)
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%
Moving toward funding distribution as follows:
- 40% to Meadville
- 20% to Titusville
- 40% divided equally among 7 libraries and system headquarters
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%
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
- Lawrence County
- Funds are distributed based on population of service district.
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
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 1/8th 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%