Item

Job Title

FY 20152016

Number

FY20162017

Number

Standard
Rate

Professiona
l Staff
Full-time

Part-time

Other Staff

Head librarian

$283,900

10

n/a

n/a

Diff
amounts

Branch
librarians

$204,000

$306,000

$34,000

Director of
County
libraries

n/a

n/a

$45,000

$45,000

Reference
librarian

$216,250

$224,000

$32,000.0
0

Assistant
librarian

$434,750

16

$464,000

16

$29,000.0
0

Head librarian

$14,000

n/a

n/a

n/a

Branch
librarian

n/a

n/a

$14,000

$14,000

Reference
librarian

$45,500

$31,000

$15,500

Assistant
librarian

$65,125

$68,750

$13,750.0
0

Administrativ
e Assistant

$22,000

$22,000

$22,000

Circulation
Clerk

$367,000

20

$767,000

20

$20,000

Secretary

$39,000

$39,000

$19,500

Maintenance

$137,400

$281,400

$16,000

Full time

worker

Part-time

Other
Annual
Operating
Expenses

Total

Page

$57,000

$60,000

$15,000

Circulation
Clerk

$64,320

11,100/hr
s

$25,710

7,590/hrs

Rate
already in
place

Maintenance
worker

$78,531

15,560/hr
s

$78,531

15,560/hr
s

Rate
already in
place

Page

$108,960

21,460/hr
s

$42,660

8,200

Rate
already in
place

Acquisitions

$509,150

$409,150

Supplies

$164,650

$164,650

Utilities

$134,880

$134,880

Maintenance

$54,285

$54,285

Other

$57,300*

$41,300*

$3,058,00
1

$3,273,31
6

*Includes $21,000 for bookmobile services, $11,000 for in-school programs, $6,500 for summer
children's programs, $4,500 for travel (City of Waynesfield), $1,300 for senior outreach
program (Senior Center Outreach program), $500 to organize the annual Mt. Tom book
drive, the main source of book donations for the Mt. Tom library, $12,500 for Saturday
children's programming and Sunday afternoon foreign film series (Town of Lansdale).
**Includes $13,000 for bookmobile services, $7,000 for in-school services, $4,500 for summer
children's programs, $2,500 for travel (City of Waynesfield), $1,300 for senior outreach
program (Senior Center Outreach program), $500 to organize the annual Mt. Tom book

drive, the main source of book donations for the Mt. Tom library, $12,500 for Saturday
children's programming and Sunday afternoon foreign film series (Town of Lansdale).

***Below are a few notes and justifications regarding the chart above. If here is something that
is confusing, please email me or respond on here. I have n/a in some spots. This means that it
does not apply to those areas. In this chart, no money was saved due to the amount of money that
had to go towards the full time workers. They had to hold their positions according to #3 on the
Budget Directors note and #4 states that the salary scales within job classifications are to be
standardized at the highest levels currently paid by any of the newly consolidated units.

-There are only 9 full time village and township head librarians. Thats why the 9 is in the #
column with branch librarians.
-The branch librarians are compensated at $34,000 due to Form 59a showing that this is the rate
for this title and the Budget Director stated in bullet 5 on Form 58 #5 The agreement with
public employee unions, salary scales within job classifications are to be standardized at the
highest levels currently paid by any of the newly consolidated units.
-There are full time 7 reference librarians. The highest paid reference librarian is paid $32,000.
-There are 16 full time assistant librarians. The highest paid is $29,000.00.
-I kept the part time branch librarian/head librarian at $14,000 since there was no other salary to
base him off of.
-There is only one administrative assistant full time administrative assistant. They must keep
their pay and position since they are full time.
-Eliminated half of the City of Waynesfields Circulation Clerk hours as they have 8 full-time
Circulation Clerks.
-Did not eliminate any maintenance staff or hours
-The part time page positions have been eliminated from City of Waynesfield as they already
have 3 full time workers for that position.
-Took $100,000 from acquisitions and $16,000 from other. The City of Waynesfield library had
to eliminate some programs.

FORM 61-QUESTIONS
1. What was the aggregate budget for all preconsolidation Adams County Libraries?
We have determined that the aggregate budget of the preconsolidation of the Adams County
Libraries is $3,058,001, this number includes the salaries for all full-time and part-time workers and other
annual operating expenses.

2. Did you achieve the mandated 3 percent savings? Why?

While we eliminated job some part-time positions and made cuts, we believed that some part time positions
could not be eliminated or cut. Positions such as those for the smaller branches are necessary as they hardly
have workers and will need to continue with the staff they have in order to continue operations

3. Assume you are a member of the board of supervisors. What questions would come to
your mind as you reviewed this line item budget? Is there any information you would like
to have that this line item budget does not contain?
I would ask about certain programs that are going to be cut. How should the budget amount per
position be distributed?
What is the distinction between Head librarian, branch librarian, and Assistant librarian?
I would also ask for further clarification on how certain areas of the budget were reduced?
How many people are served daily by each branch, especially The City of Waynesfield, as to
determine if there is a need for all of the staff and if further cuts could be made?

4. In general what are the strengths and weaknesses of the line-item format?
Line item budgeting provides information to determine whether current-year revenues were
sufficient to pay for current-year services. It also demonstrates compliance with other financerelated legal or contractual requirements. Another advantage of line-item budgeting is the
simplicity of it, it offers a simple and reliable means of predicting future spending. A quick
glance at it can tell a lot. It is a familiar approach of budgeting and is fore telling and provides
trends for historical analysis of what the budget should forecast.
Some disadvantages may be the lack of analysis that goes into. Status quo seems to be accepted
and the thought process of "since this worked last year it should work this year" can be easily
adapted to. Also a detailed explanation is not allowed with this method, which can cause
questions to arise and no area for explanation.