From the Evansville Courier-Press:
If you notice the desktop computers in the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library system disappear over the next couple of months, don't panic — it's part of how the library plans to use an unexpected $1 million it's scheduled to get this year.
Thin clients will replace those desktops, the library's surveillance system will be buttressed and more than a half-million dollars will be set aside for rainy days, library officials said, thanks to a state budget error.
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The library had already planned to phase in the thin clients gradually over the next few years, but now approximately 240 user stations at its eight libraries will have them this fall.
"We were very pleased with it," library spokeswoman Amy Mangold said about the $593,000 it received in April and the $404,000 it will receive through December.
The money is county-option income tax — or COIT — revenue, which the state collects yearly from Hoosiers' paychecks and then distributes monthly to counties and their taxing districts.
Like the local airport and levee authority, the library is a taxing district that receives COIT funds.
In April, the Indiana Department of Revenue revised COIT distribution amounts higher for 2011 and 2012 because of a computer error. The $206 million error brought about $6.6 million to Vanderburgh County for 2011 and the first four months of 2012.
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Of the $404,000 it will see though December, $236,000 will pay for the thin clients and additional security cameras at an undisclosed location.
As for the remaining $168,000 expected through December, Mangold said that will go into the library operating fund and what's left will be appropriated at the end of the year.
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http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/jul/17/no-headline---library_coit/
