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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. V ` <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM_ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 18, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: HyconeecheeRegional_ Library <br />_ -- _____-'__________ -- <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES: _- _NO: _X_ -- <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Commissioner Insko <br />John Link <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br />Hillsborough <br />- 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />- 968 -4501 <br />Mebane <br />- 227 -2031 <br />Durham <br />- 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the recommendations of the Hyconeechee Regional <br />Library Task Force. <br />BACKGROUND: The Regional Library Task Force was created in November, 1991 <br />by the Boards of Commissioners in Caswell, Person and Orange <br />Counties. Each Board appointed a county commissioner, a <br />representative from the library board, and county manager to <br />serve on the task force. The Library Task Force charge was <br />to: a) implement the recommendations included in the State <br />Auditor's review of the Regional Library; b) Examine the <br />contractual and structural organization of the regional <br />library and c) assist the Regional Library Board of Trustees <br />select a permanent Regional Library Director. <br />The Task Force met on December 12, 1991 and February 13, <br />1992. At the February 13 meeting, Howard McGinn, Director, <br />Division of State Library, presented the advantages and <br />disadvantages of maintaining the three county regional <br />library system. After the discussion, the Task Force <br />re- affirmed their commitment to remain a regional library <br />system and improve the operations of the library system. <br />Also, the Task Force recommended the three Boards of <br />Commissioners take the following actions: 1) immediately <br />dissolve each local county library board; 2) establish a new <br />regional library board of trustees consisting of three <br />representatives from each county with one representative <br />being a county commissioner; 3) appoint the Regional Library <br />Task Force to serve as the interim board of trustees until <br />the new board has been appointed, and 4) offer suggestions <br />regarding the revision of regional library board by -laws and <br />issues of importance. New appointments should be completed <br />by March 10, 1992 with members serving staggered terms and <br />the Chair rotating among the three counties. <br />