Sentences with phrase «library board»

Giving back to the community through volunteer work, or being on the local school or library board tells me more than just following a sports team does.

Enlisting the assistance of contracting library directors and ACT (Association of Contracting Libraries Boards of Trustees) board members, branch managers, administrators and department heads to restructure our organization; seek alternate revenue streams; and rethink the way in which we provide services and handle internal administrative responsibilities.

«So far, we've gotten a uniform reaction from library board members, members of the public, and media: they are shocked,» LaRue said.

This new district would require the abolition of the existing city and town library boards in Erie County.

Although I remain skeptical regarding the wisdom of creating another layer of government, I favor allowing the central library board to make their case to the citizens of Erie County and letting the voters decide.

As you are aware, this past September, with the support of a super majority of contracting library Boards, the System Board of Trustees voted to move forward to create a Special Legislative District Public Library System.

Includes: railways; telephone companies within the legislative authority of federal government; telegraph companies; navigation companies; international bridges; provincial governments, including boards, commissions, and Crown agencies; any airline with a regularly scheduled international passenger service; municipalities, including municipal boards and commissions, except hospital boards; public library boards; police villages; and school boards

Independent local library boards govern each member library.

«We are very excited about this arrangement, which we believe will benefit the entire community,» said library board President James Wall.

Under state legislation signed into law earlier this year by Gov. Jim Edgar, the elections will be consolidated beginning in 1999 with municipal, park district and library board elections held in April of odd - numbered years.

But in Fox River Grove, two library board seats are going begging.

The embattled library board was dismantled in July after eight trustees opposed firing library director Thomas Galante, who spent $ 27,000 of his mostly taxpayer - funded salary to pay for lavish office renovations, among other things.

The Canadian School Libraries board responded to this news by writing a letter to Minister Joanasie.

I also served in a middle - management position, not just at CPL and SPL, but also at several middle - sized public libraries, which gave me the opportunity to observe library board meetings on a regular basis, and interact with the boards of trustees at some of those institutions.

A 1944 SMU graduate, Mrs. Ware continued the family legacy as an actively involved student and alumnae, serving on the SMU Alumni Board, the Dedman College Executive Board and the Friends of the SMU Libraries Board.

He also served as a Public Defender for the Borough of Paramus, attorney for the Paramus library board and Special Borough Attorney for the Borough of Ringwood.

In Mount Vernon Ohio in 2008, the law library board received $ 49,438 in revenue from penal fines and traffic fines.

«I think it's a victory for the people that elected me,» said Keith Price, who is an alderman, library board member, school board member and Park District president in Harvey.

A recent Library Journal Online article examined a newly passed bill in Connecticut that gave the state's library board of trustees the authority to create a state - wide e-book collection.

At last report, however, the central library board was drafting state legislation to allow for an independent countywide library district, complete with its own taxing authority.

To participate in the library system, each local library board has a membership agreement with the Library System Board.

Park and library officials began negotiating the land swap in 1998, after the library board concluded that the library's portion of Wilder Park is not big enough to hold a second addition to the 1860s mansion and enough parking for patrons.

Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.

When an architectural study showed that the mansion could not handle a third expansion without costly structural work, the City Council, library board and Park District hammered out a land swap in which the Park District gave the city and library 27,000 square feet of land at Prospect Street near the Elmhurst Art Museum in exchange for 52,000 square feet of land on the north and south sides of the mansion.

A deal signed last June gives the library board 35,000 square feet in the park's northwest corner in exchange for the 1860s mansion, which will go to the Park District after the city pays to install a new elevator and sprinkler system.

An intergovernmental group, which is composed of two members each from Community Unit School District 205, the park district, the library board and the City Council, are considering a plan to «recycle buildings.»

Half of that money would have come from the sale of about 6.5 acres to the library board for its building.

Serving 67,000 residents in Wheeling, Buffalo Grove and Prospect Heights with two branches, the library board just adopted a new strategic plan for 2013 - 2015 in late December.

Orland Park library leaders held a closed - door session Jan. 13 and another is planned for Thursday to start chipping away at a list of 12 candidates to fill an open spot on the library board.

The museum board could not add directors without approval of the park board, library board and artists guild until the charter expires in July 2001.

The library board granted approval last year, but the Park District board unanimously rejected the proposal in January at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, then the district's representative on the museum board.

The Elmhurst City Council and library board have agreed to the proposal, which transfers control of park property in Wilder Park to the library and determines how land north of Virginia Street is to be used in the future.

Both candidates, in addition to the five nominated for village trustee, the one nominated for village clerk and the four candidates for the library board, are expected to appear at the village's Town Meeting at 10 a.m. Dec. 1 to make speeches.

Village voters next spring will choose three trustees and four library board members.

Glen Ellyn — Although the next election for village trustees and library board members is more than eight months away, the Civic Betterment Party has begun its search for candidates.

In Arlington Heights, seven candidates are contending for two slots on the library board.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

In early returns, voters were rejecting the tax increases for Bensenville elementary schools, the park district and the library board.

The Village Board, park board and library board have all bought land in a tract south of U.S. Highway 30 and north of the Village Hall on Haven Avenue.

The library board was considering a lawsuit at their meeting last night.

On September 14, the Stony Point Town Clerk's Office informed the Library Board that paperwork they filed on August 29 was inadequate because the library board did not have a quorum of five out of nine members present.

A total of 19 members of the library board of trustees are appointed by the mayor and the Queens borough president.

She also asked:» the library board and staffs [to] prepare a realistic neighborhood services restoration plan that covers a three - year timeline.

A pool of candidates should constantly be built up from local organizations: zoning boards, school boards, library boards, etc..

This funding level would remain constant unless the library board voted for it to increase.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz ordered the library board to put Galante on leave in April 2014 after a series of published stories accused Galante of graft.

But it is dependent on local governments, schools, and other taxing entities, like water boards and library boards, holding the line on spending.

«Coming from a school is a particularly good thing, or even a library board, if it's one that has its own budget, because, in addition to the communication and civic involvement and showing up and listening to people and so on and so forth, you also have a pretty abrupt education on what budget is like.

Last fall, photographer Dan Green was documenting community libraries in Nepal when he met Sita, a library board member and the chief entrepreneur with Empower Generation.