[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Augusta
as Ch. 6.5, Art. IV, of the 1990 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
A.
The administrative
management of the library shall be as a department of the City, with
the Director of Community Services to appoint the Library Director
with the advice and consent of the City Manager.
B.
The Library
Director shall hire his own subordinate clerks and employees as needed,
subject to the approval of the Director of Community Services and
the City Manager. The Library Director shall furnish the Director
of Community Services and the City Manager annually with a proposed
budget.
C.
The Board
of Trustees shall recommend to the Library Director and to the Director
of Community Services and the City Manager from time to time proposals
for the improvement of the library, shall be in charge of the investment
of any endowment funds over which the Board now has control, and shall
determine what books shall be purchased from time to time from the
endowment income, all of which income may be used for such purpose
unless otherwise restricted, as well as from any other monies that
may be appropriated for that purpose.
[Amended 1-6-1992 by Ord.
No. 244]
Whoever willfully detains any book, audiovisual material or other property belonging to Lithgow Library for seven days after written notice to return the same, delivered by certified mail or in hand by the Police Department, given after the expiration of the time which, by the rules of Lithgow Library, such article or other property may be kept, shall be punished in accordance with Chapter 1, Article III, General Penalty, of the City Code.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 197]
The Mayor, with the advice and consent of the City Council,
shall appoint a Board of Trustees of the Lithgow Library and Reading
Room, to consist of seven members; and, in addition, the Mayor, or
a member of the Council designated from time to time by him/her, and
another member to be appointed by the Judge of Probate shall serve
as members. The terms of the first five members shall be as presently
in place, and subsequent appointments shall be for three years. The
initial terms of the additional two members shall be one for two years
and one for three years, and subsequent appointments shall be for
three years. The member appointed by the Judge of Probate shall serve
for three years. All members shall serve until their successors are
duly appointed and qualified. Four members shall constitute a quorum.
They shall appoint from their membership a Chairperson, and no member
shall serve as a Chairperson in excess of one year at a time.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 197]
The Board of Trustees of the Lithgow Library and Reading Room
shall prescribe the rules and regulations of its meetings.
The Board of Trustees of the Lithgow Library and Reading Room
shall do all things necessary to protect, preserve and take care of
such library and reading room.
The Board of Trustees of the Lithgow Library and Reading Room
shall prescribe the rules and regulations under which the library
and reading room may be used.
[Amended 6-17-1985 by Ord. No. 111; 4-1-1996 by Ord. No. 391]
Each fiscal year, the Board of Trustees of Lithgow Library and
Reading Room may appropriate and spend from income earned on the library's
unrestricted endowment funds up to $1,200 for promoting cultural activities
to be held at Lithgow Library. These activities must be in support
of the humanities, free of charge to the public.
