Whether your are elected, appointed, or self-perpetuating, as a Trustee you need a basic understanding of how your local government works. This is because every certified library in Massachusetts gets funding from its municipality. Understanding how your municipality's government functions can be essential to negotiating your library's budget and can mean the different between having an adequately staffed and serviced library or suffering funding cuts. The resources here will help you brush up on how towns and cities can be governed, financed, organized.
Understanding how your municipality gets and distributes its funds is essential to helping your library secure funding. Here are some resources to give you a basic overview of municipal finance.
The Division of Local Services (DLS), a division of the Department of Revenue (DOR) and has an abundance of resources to help you understand municipal finance in plain language. Learn more about who they are in this video: