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MinutesThe following from the Code of the City of Derby lays out the role of the library: Sec. 94. Generally. The City of Derby may maintain a public library, the use of which under proper regulations shall be free to its inhabitants. The public library shall be under the management and control of a Board of nine Library Directors who shall serve without pay. Said Board of Directors shall have charge of all the property of said city used for the purposes of said library and shall direct the expenditure of all money placed at its disposal by the city from whatever source derived and of all money and property which may be donated by private individuals to said library. Six of said nine Directors shall be residents of said city and shall be appointed by the Mayor as hereinafter provided. The remaining three of said Directors may be nonresidents of said city and shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with any agreement therefor which shall have been approved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city, and said Mayor and Board of Aldermen are authorized to enter into any such agreement with reference to the appointment of said three Directors, and for such length of time, whether determinable or in perpetuity, as they may deem advisable. In the absence of any such agreement or upon the expiration of same, the Mayor shall appoint such three Directors, and may in his discretion appoint residents or nonresidents of said city. The present Board of Directors shall hold their offices for the terms to which they have been appointed and until their successors are appointed. In April 1923, and biennially thereafter, in the month of April, the Mayor shall appoint three Directors to hold office for six years from the first Monday of May next following and until their successors are appointed, two of whom shall belong to said group of six Directors, and one to said group of three Directors. The Mayor shall fill any vacancy in said Board caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, for the unexpired term. Sec. 95. Board of Directors-Authority generally. Said Board of Directors shall make and enforce such bylaws, rules and regulations as it may deem proper for the management, protection and preservation of the property of said library and the management and the use of the rooms thereof, and shall have all the rights and powers and be liable to the performance of all the duties and obligations belonging by statute to Directors of public libraries in cities of this state. They shall have authority, with the consent of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, to make a contract or contracts on behalf of and in the name C34 08 – 01 – 2006§ 94 CHARTER § 97 of said city with the Derby Neck Library Association for the use and occupation of any property of said Derby Neck Library Association in furtherance of the purposes of a free public library. Said Board of Library Directors shall annually report in writing to the Mayor of said city the condition of said library, the circulation of books, and generally the operation of said library for the preceding year. Sec. 96. Same-Organization. Said Board shall, by ballot, biennially, at such time and place as may be prescribed by the bylaws, elect one of its, number, who shall be a resident of said city, to be President, who shall hold office until his successor is elected and said Board shall elect a Secretary, a Treasurer and such other officers as it may deem necessary, all of whom shall serve without shall pay, and shall appoint and remove such librarian or librarians and other employees as it may deem necessary for tile proper management of said library and shall fix the duties and compensation of such librarian and employees. The offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same person. Sec. 97. Fiscal affairs. The Board of Apportionment and Ta xation of the City of Derby shall annually appropriate a sum of money for the care, maintenance and support of said public library, and for the purchase of books, and may from time to time appropriate in addition thereto sums of money for building purposes, repairs or improvements in real estate and fixtures. All monies which have been or shall be appropriated by said city for library purposes shall. by the Treasurer of said city, be paid over to the Treasurer appointed by the Board of Library Directors, at regular intervals during the fiscal year. No payment shall be made by said Treasurer appointed by said Board of Library Directors except upon bills or orders approved in such manner as may be provided in the bylaws, and all bills and vouchers for expenses incurred shall be kept on file as may be provided in the bylaws and shall be subject to inspection by the Mayor, the City Treasurer, the Corporation Counsel and any member of the Board of Directors of said library. The Board of Directors of said library shall not, on account of city appropriations or as chargeable thereto, expend any money in excess of the money therefor appropriated by said Board of Apportionment and Ta xation for the use of said library, except that any funds not derived from such city appropriation may be expended to such an amount and for such purposes as said Board of Directors shall deem that the interests of said library may require. Sec. 98. Rules and regulations. The public rooms of said library may be used for all such scientific, literary, historical and other educational purposes, lectures and meetings as may be approved by the Directors, and for such other purposes and meetings as the Directors may deem to be expedient, and for the use of said rooms said Directors may charge such reasonable price as they shall deem proper, except that when said rooms shall be used for scientific, literary, historical or other educational lectures or meetings, any charge therefor shall be at the discretion of the Directors, but shall in no case exceed the reasonable expense attendant upon such use. Any fees received for the use of said rooms as aforesaid shall be applied to the general purposes of said library. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city authorized in the name and in behalf of said city to accept any real estate which may be donated to said city for any of the purposes mentioned in this act under such terms, conditions, agreements and stipulations with reference thereto and the management thereof and the name of said library as they may deem to be to the advantage of said city and not inconsistent with this act. All money, books and other personal property donated to said city for library purposes, or to said library, may be accepted by said Board of Directors under such conditions, restrictions and stipulations as they shall deem advantageous to said library and said city. Sec. 99. Management, etc., of library trust funds. The Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of said city shall be a board of trustees of any permanent fund or any trust for said public library, and shall receive, hold, manage, invest and reinvest, in the manner provided by law with reference to the investment of trust funds in this state, any money or other property which by devise, bequest or donation shall be given for the establishment of any permanent fund, or in trust for the benefit of said public library. Such fund shall be kept as a separate fund, and said Commissioners shall annually report in writing the condition of such fund, its disposition and the manner of its investment, to the Mayor of said city. The income of said fund shall semiannually be turned over to said Board of Directors for the use of said library, or as specified in the terms of any devise, bequest or donation. Should any income of said fund not be expended in any one year, such unexpended income shall be subject at any time to the order of said Board of Directors. Any and all absolute donations of money or other personal property, whether by gift, bequest or devise, shall be held, managed and used as said Board of Directors may deem expedient. |