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INTRODUCTION
The Provisional Budget for 1992, approved by the Library Board on November 27, 19974,
contains an increase in revenue of 6% or $480,905 and an average increase in member
assessments of 6.36%. The increase in average tax per capita, adjusted for population,
is $0.36.

Within this budget figure it is not possible to address any of the objectives of the Five
Year Pini, other than to proceed with planned investment in the computer system delayed
from 1991. — | |

it is imperative that the automation program move forward and that we implement the
developments cancelled in 1991 if aging equipment is to be replaced, public needs
addressed, and the Board’s investment in the system is to be protected.

In the past five years, other areas of the budget have been given less priority in order tnat
the materials budget could ‘be increased substantially. Within the confines of the present
budget it has not been possible to address the needs of the materials budget in any
substantive manner. Only modest increases in staff to meet the most serious demand
areas within the system have been addressed.