HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-117 ORDINANCE NO. NS-ll7 ESTABLTSHING AND PROVIDING FOR A
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THE CITY COUNCIL CF THE CITY CF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That there is hereby re-established and continued in existence,
a Library Board of the City of Santa Aha which shall consist of five members to
be appointed by the City Council. Members of such Board shall hold office for a
period of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and
the present members shall serve out their terms of office as heretofore provided
for.
SECTION 2. The members of the Library Board shall receive no compensation
for their service, shall be governed by Sections 901, 902, 903, 904, 905 and 906
of the Charter of the City of Santa Aha, and the Library Board shall have the
lowing powers and duties:
(a) It shall consider all matters that may be referred to it by the City
Council or the City Manager, and shall render its recommendation, counsel and ad-
vice in regard thereto.
(b) On its own motion, it may ma~e such studies, investigations, plans and
recommendations as it may deem necessary.
(c) It shall recommend to the City Council and the City Manager as to the
acceptan$e or rejection of all offers of donation of money, perso~al property or
real property to be used for library purposes.
(d) It shall consider the annual library budget during the process of
preparation and m-~e its recommendations regarding the same, directly to the
City Manager. The Library Board shall be furnished quarterly reports of library
e~penditures and when it appears that any major classification of the Library budget
may be depleted before the end of the fiscal year, said Board shall be so notified.
(e) It shall maXe an investigation, either independently or in conjunction
with members of the library staff, regarding any study, review, discussion, or
other group and they shall maxe a recommendation to the City Librarian before the
same shall be sponsored by the library or have use of library facilities.
(f) It shall recommend to the City Council and the City Manager on the
purchase of all real property and upon the erection or rental of al! buildings or
rooms or the equipping of the same for public library use within the City.
(g) It shall assist the head librarian and other staff m~mbers in the s.election
for~purcha~e or acceptance for circulation, of boo~s, publications or other papers
to insure that the reviewing, service, purchase and acceptance of such material is
at all times objective and at no time used to propagandize library users mpon either
side of any controversial question and to insure that the library employees do not
exceed their budget for such acquisitions and that balance of material is maintained.
The Chairman, with the approval of the Library Board, shall appoint such standing
committees as may be decided by said Board or desirable or necessary to the proper
function~ug of the library°system in the City.
SEOTION 3. The Library Board shall cause an annual report to be made to the
City Council and the City Manager on or before the first day of September of every
year, covering the activity of the preceding fiscal year.
SECTION 4. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the passage of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to he published, within 15 days after its adop-
tion, in one issue of the Santa Aha Independent. Tkis Ordinance shall ta~e effect
30 days from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Aha at its regu-
_ lar meeting held on t~e 18th day of July ~, 19~5.
STATE OF CALIF0~IA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY ~F SA~NTA ANA )
I, EP~A ~.~W~w.~, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City
of Santa Aha, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced at the
regular meeting of said Council held on the 5th day of Ju~y , 1955, and
was again considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 18th day
of July , 1955, and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopte y~id
Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Dale H, Heir, J. Ogden Markel,
William Jerome, Courtney R. Chandler
NOES, COUNCIIMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCI~MEN: Ntlford W. Dahl
- CLERK OF THE COUNCIL