The Board shall have and exercise the following powers and duties:
(A) To meet and elect from its members a President, a Secretary and such other officers as it deems necessary. The City Treasurer shall serve as Board Treasurer, but shall not be a member of the Board;
(B) To have charge, control and supervision of the public library, its appurtenances, fixtures and room containing the same;
(C) To direct and control all the affairs of the library;
(D) To employ a librarian, and authorize the librarian to employ such assistants and employees as may be necessary for the proper management of the library, and fix their compensation; provided, however, that, prior to such employment, the compensation of the librarian, assistants and employees shall have been fixed and approved by a majority of the members of the Board voting in favor thereof;
(E) To remove by a two-thirds vote of the Board the librarian and provide procedures for the removal of assistants or employees for misdemeanor, incompetency or inattention of duty, subject, however, to the provisions of the Code of Iowa;
(F) To select, or authorize the librarian to select, and make purchase of books, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, papers, maps, journals, audiovisual materials, other library materials, furniture, fixtures, stationery and supplies for the library within budgetary limits set by the Board;
(G) To authorize the use of the library by non- residents of the city and to fix charges therefor;
(H) To make and adopt, amend, modify or repeal rules and regulations, not inconsistent with ordinances and the law, for the care, use, government and management of the library and the business of the Board, fixing and enforcing penalties for violations;
(I) To have exclusive control of the expenditure of all funds allocated for library purposes by the Council, and of all monies available by gift or otherwise for the erection of library buildings, under the rules of the Board. All other monies belonging to the library including fines and rentals collected will be deposited in the General Fund of the city;
(J) To accept gifts or real property, personal property or mixed property, and devises and bequests, including trust funds; to take the title to said property in the name of the library; to execute deeds and bills of sale for the conveyance of said property; and to expend the funds received by them from such gifts for the improvement of the library;
(K) To keep a record of its proceedings; and
(L) To enforce the performance of conditions on gifts, donations, devises and bequests that will benefit the library and have been accepted by action of the City Council.
(Ord. D-047, passed 11-21-2017)