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CKLS Grants: CKLS System Grant

Description of grants available through CKLS with links to forms and reports for each grant.

Basic System Grant

CKLS Funds to Member Libraries:

  • Cannot be put into savings or pay off debt;
  • Cannot be spent on construction or repair;
  • Must be spent or encumbered by the end of the year in which they are received.

The 2024 Central Kansas Library System Grant Questionnaire, CKLS Expenditure of 2024 Funds, and Kansas State Library Survey are due in February 2025 (the exact date is to be determined).

 

Helpful Resources:

Estimated 2024 System Grant to Earn (To receive in 2025)

Actual 2024 System Grant Earned (To receive in 2025) ****This is an incomplete document as we will be gathering stats until December 31, 2024.

2024 Stats for State Library: Questions 2.2, 9.1-9.5, 11.1-11.3, & 11.22-11.26
CKLS Weeding Tracker
Sunflower eLibrary Usage Stats
2024 Hoopla Usage Stats 
CE Tracker
 

2025 CKLS Annual System Plan 

 

 

 

Courier Allotment

Courier Allotment
The Central Kansas Library System subsidizes courier service for all eligible public libraries through a courier allotment. Each eligible public library pays a nominal annual fee. CKLS will subsidize 89% of the courier fee for each participating member library, along with overage charges. The library portion is 11%.
 
Each year,  each courier library will receive an invoice for courier service from the Northeast Kansas Library System, which administers the courier service. The invoice will be for the full cost of the courier service, which equals the local library amount due and the CKLS allotment amount, shown in the table below. The invoice will include any volume overage charges as well.
 
Also annual, each courier library will receive the CKLS Courier Allotment as a direct deposit to the bank account on file with CKLS. This direct deposit or Automated Clearing House (ACH), will indicate it is a courier allotment for subsidizing courier payment. If a library incurred volume overage charges, the CKLS Courier Allotment will include the amount of the overage charges.
If basic courier costs increase, the CKLS courier allotment will increase accordingly.
Courier Allotment (Updated for 2024 Contract with Henry Industries)
Courier Service
Library Amount
Due
CKLS Allotment
Amount
Total Cost of Courier
Service
2021 5-day a week service
$300
$1,150
$1,450
2021 3-day a week service
$150
$490
$640
2022 5-day a week service $300 $2,300 $2,600
2022 3-day a week service $150 $800 $950
2023 5-day a week service $423.50 $3,426.50 $3,850
2023 3-day a week service $185.90 $1,504.10 $1,690
2024 5-day a week service $453.20 $3,666.80 $4,120
2024 3-day a week service $204.05 $1,650.95 $1,855

Public Library Continuing Education Allotment

Public Library Continuing Education Allotment
The Central Kansas Library System recognizes the importance of continuing education. CKLS urges all member libraries to provide time and funding for staff and trustees to attend library continuing education events.
To support this, CKLS provides each eligible public library $700 a year to assist paying the wages and expenditures for attending CKLS or other library-related workshops, classes, or online training. This money can also pay non-board members or volunteers to run the library when the library is open during an event and when no one else is available to run the library. Any continuing education money not spent during the year will be deducted from the following year’s continuing education grant.