12-1266. Same; powers and duties of board; annual payments to certain libraries.
12-1266
12-1266. Same; powers and duties of board; annual payments to certain
libraries.
The board shall have the power:
(a) To make
and adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the library;
(b) to
purchase or lease a site or sites and to lease or erect a building or
buildings for the use of the library;
(c) to acquire by purchase, gift or exchange, books, magazines, papers,
printed materials, slides, pictures, films, projection equipment,
phonograph records and other material and equipment deemed necessary by the
board for the maintenance and extension of modern library service;
(d) to employ a librarian and such other employees as the board
deems necessary and to remove them and to fix their compensation;
(e) to establish and maintain a library or libraries and traveling
library service within the district or within any other municipality
with which service contract arrangements have been made;
(f) to contract with other libraries
or with the governing body of a municipality
for the furnishing of library service to the inhabitants of
such municipality to the extent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon,
and to contract with any school board to furnish library service to any
school library or to use the library facilities of the public school to
supplement the facilities of the public library;
(g) to receive, accept and administer any money appropriated or granted
to it by the state or the federal government or any agency thereof for the
purpose of aiding or providing library service;
(h) to receive and accept any gift or donation to the library and
administer the same in accordance with any provisions thereof. If no
provisions are specified, the board shall have the power to hold, invest or
reinvest the gift and any dividends, interest, rent or income derived from
the gift in the manner the board deems will best serve the interests of the
library;
(i) to make annual reports to the state librarian and the governing body
of the city and county on or before January 31 of each year for the
preceding calendar year, showing receipts and disbursements from all funds
under its control, and showing such statistical information relating to
library materials acquired and on hand, number of library users, library
services available, and other information of general interest as the
governing body requires;
(j) to place money received from sources other than a tax levy for library
purposes
in a separate fund or
funds or
in the fund to which the tax levy money is
credited unless the grantor or donor directs how and for what purpose
the money shall be handled and spent; and
(k) subject to the provisions of subsection (f), the board shall pay
annually to the Rossville public library and to the Silver Lake public library
a sum of money equal to 50% of the amount of money each such library has
budgeted for the annual operation and
maintenance of such library. The first such payment shall be made payable and
delivered to the Rossville public library and to the Silver Lake public library
on or before the 31st day of December first following approval of the creation
of the district at the election conducted pursuant to K.S.A.
12-1261, and each year
thereafter. Such
payments shall be in lieu of annual grants such township libraries receive from
the northeast Kansas library system.
History: L. 1992, ch. 133, § 7; July 1.