CHAPTER 32: TOWN ORGANIZATIONS

Section

Library Board

   32.001   Membership

   32.002   Meetings

   32.003   Finance

   32.004   Destruction of library property

   32.005   Failure to return books and other items

   32.006   Rules and regulations

Cemetery Board

   32.020   Board of Trustees

   32.021   Organization and powers

   32.022   Town responsibilities

   32.023   Finance

   32.024   Perpetual care

   32.025   Sale of lots

   32.026   Name of cemetery

Planning Commission

   32.040   Creation

   32.041   Membership; terms

   32.042   Vacancies

   32.043   Chairperson

   32.044   Funds, equipment and the like

   32.045   Master plan for physical development

LIBRARY BOARD

§ 32.001 MEMBERSHIP.

   The operational direction of the library shall be vested in a board of five members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Board of Trustees of the town. The first appointments of such Board members shall be for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respectively, and, thereafter, a Board member shall be appointed annually to serve for five years. Vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms as soon as possible in the manner in which members of the Board are regularly chosen. A Library Board member may be removed only by vote of the town’s Board of Trustees.

(Prior Code, § 138.1.1) (Ord. 577, passed 11-6-2014)

§ 32.002 MEETINGS.

   (A)   The Board members of the library, immediately after their appointment, shall meet and organize by the election of a President and a Secretary and such other officers as they may deem necessary.

   (B)   The Board members of the library shall have the power to:

      (1)   Adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations for their own guidance and for the operation of the library as they deem appropriate and as approved by the town’s Board of Trustees;

      (2)   Advise the Library Director on operational policies and procedures;

      (3)   Have advisement authority of the disbursement of the funds in the library checking account;

      (4)   Accept such gifts of money or property for library purposes as they deem appropriate;

      (5)   Purchase books, periodicals, maps, supplies and materials for the library on the recommendation of the Library Director; and

      (6)   Do all other acts necessary for the orderly and efficient management of the library.

(Prior Code, § 138.1.2)