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ORDINANCE NO. 3077
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY
ADDING CHAPTER 2.86 ENTITLED LIBRARY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain
as follows :
SECTION 1. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding Chapter 2 . 86 entitled Library Services
Department to read as follows :
Sections :
2 . 86 . 010 Establishment .
2 . 86 . 020 Mission.
2 . 86 . 030 Objectives .
2 . 86 . 040 Director--Powers and duties .
2 . 86 . 050 Appointment of subordinates .
2 . 86 . 060 Fees and charges .
2 . 86 . 070 Annual budget .
2 . 86 . 080 Acceptance of gifts .
2.86 .010 Establishment. There is hereby established a
department of library services .
2.86 .020 Mission. The library assists in the educational
development and cultural enrichment of the citizens of the
community by providing access to library facilities, materials
and information for the betterment of the community.
2.86.030 Objectives. The objectives of the library services
department shall be as follows :
(a) To provide and maintain library materials and service for
the citizens of Huntington Beach and its environs .
(b) To provide information and assistance to the library board
and other civic groups relating to the library.
(c) Acquire, circulate, maintain and secure library materials .
(d) Issue library cards, collect fees and fines, answer patron
inquiries .
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(e) Develop comprehensive children' s services and collections to
encourage and promote reading and education by children.
(f) Provide for recovery of overdue material .
(g) Inform in the use of the library and its resources and
develop and maintain relevant material collections by
skilled, professional librarians .
(h) Utilize technology for efficient and effective circulation
control and for staff and patron applications .
(i) Circulate materials and provide library services in outlying
areas through local library branches .
(j ) Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to assist in the
library operation.
(k) Encourage and foster literacy.
2.86 . 040 Director--Powers and duties. The director of library
services shall be the head of the library services department,
and shall be appointed by the city administrator, subject to
approval by a majority vote of the city council . The director
shall have the following powers and duties :
(a) Plans, organizes, and administers programs and procedures
governing library services that are relevant to the present
and future community needs .
(b) Reviews and approves materials, supplies , and capital outlay
items for library system.
(c) Directs the preparation of the annual budget, administers
the approved budget and controls expenditures .
(d) Responsible for the selection and evaluation of employees in
accordance with established procedures .
(e) meets and confers with the library board and with elected
officials, city administration, and other department heads .
(f) Directs the maintenance of the library, statistics, records
and related reports .
(g) To the extent it encourages, fosters, promotes , and/or
facilitates the objectives of the department, provides
assistance to : library patrons foundation, friends of the
library, friends of the children' s library, Literacy
Volunteers of America, and other library related groups .
(h) Advises on the acquisition, design and construction of
library facilities .
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(i) Insures library needs are met and maintained within
established framework and executes policy rules and
regulations as established by the city council .
(j ) Preserve Library Bill of Rights by challenging censorship
and affirming that all libraries are forums for information
and ideas, and that library resources be provided for the
interest, information and enlightenment of the people.
(k) Perform such other duties and have such other powers as the
city council may establish hereafter by resolution.
2.86 .050 Appointment of subordinates. The director, with the
approval of the city administrator, shall appoint all other
officers, assistants, deputies and employees of the library
services department . .
2.86.060 Fees and charges. The director has authority to
charge reasonable fees for use of department services, materials
and city facilities to help defray public expense when such fees
are established by resolution of the city council .
2.86.070 Annual budget. The city council shall annually
establish a library services budget .
2.86.080 Acceptance of gifts. The department may accept all
gifts, devices, legacies or bequests from any source, public or
private in the name of the city, subject to the approval of the
city council . All monies so obtained by the department shall be
deposited by the director or his duly authorized subordinate in
the general fund of the treasury of the city or in any special
fund the city council may designate.
SECTION 2 . The City Clerk shall cause each ordinance to be
posted in three places designated by the City Council within the
city and to be published by title with a brief summary at least
once within fifteen days after its adoption in a daily,
semi-weekly or weekly newspaper, published in the county or the
city and circulated in the city, which is selected by the City
Council for that purpose.
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SECTION 3 . This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
from the date of its passage.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on
the 17th day of September 1990 .
Mayor
AT ST: / APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk 44, Cit Attorney ]
4,REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Administrator D r ctor of Conm4hity
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Ord No. 3077
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting therof held on the _4t11 day of sgptej? r
19 9O and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting therof held on the 17th day of September , 19 90 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of
all the members of said City Council ,
AYES: Councilmembers:
MacAllister, Winchell, Green, Mays, Silva, Erskine
NOES: Councilmembers:
None
ABSENT: Councilmembers:
Bannister
Fo&way CITY CLERK of the City of
Beach anal ex•officio Berk of the City
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