4/19/2005 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Article 3. Elected Offices The Board of Library Trustees wilI-continue to consist of seven members, elected at large, and serving for terns of three years each. The power and duties of the Board of Trustees remain unchanged. Mahpee Public Library By-laws Discussed and read to me by Director, verbiage essentially the same as the Massachusetts Public Library Trustees Handbook, Chapter 1. Terms of Membership. General Laws of Massachusetts M.G.L. Chapter 78, Public Libraries, Section 10 Town libraries; selection of trustees and officers town which raises or appropriates money for the support of a free public library, or free public library and reading room, owned by the torn, shall, unless th.e same has been acquired entirely or in part through some gift or bequest which contains other conditions or provisions for the election of its trustees, or for its care and managrnent} which have been accepted by the town, elect by ballot at a meeting a board of trustees consisting of any number of person, male r ferrule, divisible by three, which the town.determines to elect. When such board is first chosen, one third thereof shall be elected for one year, one third for two years and one third for three years, and thereafter one third shall be elected annually for a terra of three years. The board skull, from its own number, annually choose a chairman and secretary and, if the town so votes, a treasurer, who shall give a bond similar to that given by the town treasurer, in an amount and with sureties to the satisfaction of the selectmen. Until the town otherwise directs the town treasurer shall act as treasurer of the beard of trustees. On April 9, 2005 l attended a Massachusetts Library Trustees Workshop in Northampton where I informally polled trustees sitting at various tables with rye and learned that most trustees had been re-elected a number of times and that the number of member trustees W'as 5,6,7 and larger. As a sidebar I found the symposium most informative, with Peter Sturges, Executive Director of the State Ethics Commission and F ocl ie Blunt, Blunt Consulting on Handling Difficult Questions covering very pertinent topics in our time of growth and building. For consideration at Library Trustees meeting April 19, 2005. Nancy Soderberg Nancy K. Soderberg - USGS Data Library 508-457-2275, fax 508-457-231 nsoderberg@usgs.gov 884 Woods Hole Fid., floods Hole, MA 02543-1598 ship; 11 Woods Hole Rd., Falmouth, MA 02540 http:// ood hole.er.usg .gov