Due to a 25 percent withholding in its fiscal year 2010 state appropriation, the State Historical Society of Missouri has decreased its hours open to the public to Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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To continue operations and implement the withholding, the society’s 22 staff members have voluntarily taken a 20 percent pay reduction, and three staff positions have been eliminated. These positions included one unfilled position left temporarily vacant, one retirement and one layoff.
The society will seek private funds to continue its newspaper microfilming program and to print the Missouri Historical Review.
Read the full article in the December 30, 2009 edition of BuffaloReflex.com.
For more info., see the notice posted at the society website.
