Ordinances-2001-245 - Library Board of Trustees - Establishing

SECTION 6. POWERS AND DUTIES: The board shall have and exercise the following powers and duties: 1. To meet and elect from its members a president, a secretary, and such other officers as it deems necessary. 2. To have charge, control and supervision of the public library, its appurtenances, fixtures and rooms containing the same. 3. To direct and control all the affairs of the library. 4. To provide librarian(s), and such assistants as may be necessary for proper management of the library, and fix their compensation; provided, however, that prior to such employment, the compensation of the librarian/assistants shall have been fixed and approved by a majority of the members of the board voting in favor thereof. 5. To remove by a two-thirds vote of the board the librarian and provide procedures for the removal of assistants for misdemeanor, incompetency or inattention to duty, subject, however, to the provisions of Chapter 70, Code of Iowa. 6. To select, or authorize the librarian to select, and make purchases of books, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, papers, maps, journals, other library materials, furniture, fixtures, stationery and supplies for the library within budgetary limits set by the board. 7. To authorize the use of the library by non-residents of the city and to fix charges therefor. 8. 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. 9. To have control of the expenditure of all funds allocated for are further authorized to purchase necessary receptacles and materials for the preservation and protection of such articles.