Calendar

Spring 2024 Online workshop - Overview of the State Aid to Public Libraries Program.
June-July 2024 Annual Report Information Survey (ARIS) workshops online.
July 1, 2024 Online ARIS form opens.
Mid-August 2024 State Aid to Public Libraries forms (waiver paperwork, flexibility form, etc.) posted online.
August 5, 2024 Online submission of the Financial/Compliance Report opens.
August 16, 2024

Deadline for ARIS

Online submission of ARIS closes.

ARIS signature page must be submitted to the MBLC via email by the end of the business day.

Further details are provided in the General Instructions and/or Detailed Definitions.

August -September 2024

State Aid workshops (will be posted on our calendar when scheduled). All workshops will be online.

Separate online workshops will be held regarding Waivers.

October 4, 2024

Deadline for Financial Report/State Aid Compliance.

Online submission of Financial Report/State Aid Compliance form closes.

Signed Compliance form AND budget documentation must be submitted to the MBLC via email by end of the business day.

MAR waiver petition due, if necessary - should be emailed along with the compliance form and budget documentation.

Flexbility form due, if necessary - should be emailed along with the compliance form and budget documentation.

Deadline for Non-coordinating multiple independent libraries to forward their multiple independent compliance form and any relevant documentation to their coordinating library and/or the MBLC.

Further details provided in the General Instructions and/or Detailed Definitions.

October 11, 2024

Deadline for Coordinating Libraries for COMPILED Compliance form for Financial Report/State Aid Compliance. In late summer/early fall, coordinating libraries received the Compiled Compliance forms via email as an attachment from the MBLC.

Coordinating libraries in multiple independent systems must compile the information they receive from the mulitple independent libraries in their system and report that information on the Compiled Compliance Form.

Signed Compiled Compliance Form, Multiple Indepdent Compliance Forms for all libraries in the multiple independent system, AND budget documentation must be sent to the MBLC via email by the end of business day.

November 7, 2024 First group of municipalities meeting requirements are presented to the Board and first round of State Aid awards are granted.
November 8, 2024 Four* MAR Waiver application documents due (as listed on the petition):
  1. FY2024/FY2025 Disproportionate Cut Worksheet.
  2. Municipal budget documentation for FY2024 and FY2025 that shows the appropriation to each municipal department .
  3. Supporting letters/statements from library.
  4. Supporting letters/statements from town.
  5. *If your library/municipality is applying for a consecutive year in a row, you must also submit the applicable Waiver Year Plan.
December 5, 2024 Second group of municipalities meeting requirements are presented to the Board and state aid awards are granted.
January 9, 2025

Third group of municipalities meeting requirements are presented to the Board and state aid awards are granted.

FY2025 MAR waiver applicants are presented to the Board.

February 6, 2025

Any remaining municipalities meeting requirements are presented to the Board and state aid awards are granted.

Board acts on FY2025 MAR waiver petitions.

March 6, 2025 Board hears any appeals of denial of the FY2025 MAR.
April 3, 2025 Board acts on any appeals of denial of the FY2025 MAR.

For More Information

Cate Merlin, Head of State Programs
617-725-1860 x220
857-283-5669 (Mobile)
cate.merlin@mass.gov

Jen Inglis, State Aid Specialist
617-725-1860 x227
857-488-6112 (Mobile)
jennifer.inglis@mass.gov