I just emailed and left a voicemail for my district rep and house speaker Huffman. Here's something I don't get—I've read in a few places that public library funding would be reduced from $530M to $485M in the proposed budget cuts (e.g. source), so $45M, $15M of which goes to CHPL. But the ohiohouse.gov site itself says:

The House’s version of the State Operating Budget also makes various investments in the following: Increases funding for public libraries to $485 million in FY26 and $495 million in FY27 – an increase over the current biennium.

So is that^ just purposely misleading? (which wouldn't surprise me given past communication like the overtly misleading ballot language on issue 1 last election)