Library Commission

Kind: commission · inactive
Meets: no schedule sentence on its page
How often: no meetings in the last two years explorer count
Last meeting: Dec 7, 2022
Next meeting: none listed
Members: 6 on the roster

How it is constituted

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Legal basis

Charter Secs. 132-134 (2015-11-03) · creates · Library commission established; powers and duties; library fund source source
Charter Sec. 130 · creates · General provisions concerning advisory commissions (as it read before November 8, 2022) source
BRC 2-3-8 (2016-04-19) · governs · Library Commission source
Ordinance No. 8539 (2022) (2022-11-08) · dissolves · Repeal of Library Commission and Tax if Library District Created source source
Ordinance No. 8617 (2024) (2024-01-18) · dissolves · Repeal of BRC 2-3-8 source

Appointed by

City Council. City Council appointed all five members (Charter Sec. 130). source as of 2019-11-13

How

Annual boards and commissions recruitment in January-February; council appointed one member each year by March (Charter Sec. 130), at a regular meeting before April. · annual, by March · city-council source source

Seats

5 source as of 2019-11-13

Seat types

city resident, at least 18, resident one year before appointment ×5 qualified

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Term

5 years source as of 2019-11-13

Term limit

none set in Charter Sec. 130 (as it read before 2022), Charter Secs. 132-134 or BRC 2-3-1; they set five-year terms but no limit on reappointment source source

Staggering

One five-year term expired each year (Charter Sec. 130); the 2019 roster shows appointment years 2015-2020, 2016-2021, 2017-2022, 2018-2023, 2019-2024. source source

Powers

mixed. Decides: Adopted library bylaws, rules and policies; expenditures of gift, bequest and donation money in the Library Fund needed its favorable recommendation.. To council: Recommendations to council on library matters: the master plan, the annual library budget, facilities and capital needs. source source source

Council liaison

not applicable: Council does not seat liaisons on advisory commissions; council procedure lets members attend but not speak at board meetings unless council authorizes it. The 2023 minutes read list commissioners, library staff and 'City staff present: None'. source source

Staff liaison

Boulder Public Library (city Department of Library and Arts until the 2023-2024 transfer to the library district) · David Farnan, Celia Seaton source source as of 2023-10-04

Relations

City Council appoints Library Commission source
Library Commission recommends to City Council source
Library Commission succeeded by Boulder Public Library District · policy review and approval moved from the commission to the district's Board of Trustees in 2023 source source

History

1917 · created · Established in the 1917 Charter (Article IX); Charter Secs. 132-134 were re-adopted in their last form by Ord. No. 8055, approved by voters November 3, 2015. source
2022-11-08 · dissolved · Voters approved Ord. No. 8539, repealing Charter Secs. 132-134 contingent on the county-ballot library district passing, which it did the same day. source source
2023-10-04 · transitioned · Last meeting: the commission voted to suspend its November and December 2023 meetings as policy review moved to the district's trustees; no later meeting folder exists. source
2024-01-18 · dissolved · Council repealed BRC 2-3-8 (Library Commission) by Ord. No. 8617. source

2 meetings, first on record 2022

timeline 2011 to now

Each line is a meeting. Tall: has a recording. Short: no recording. Square below: has documents. Ring above: has captions. Dashed: upcoming or cancelled. The dashed box is the window with full sources (agendas, packets, minutes) from Apr 1, 2026; before it, recordings only.