HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/02/1978 FC Committee ReportVillage f Mount Prospect
Mount Prospect, Illinois
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM �1a:CIg9C
COMMITTEE REPORT
TO: Mayor $ Village Board
FROM: Trustee Leo Floros, Chairman, Finance Committee
SUBJECT: Finance Committee Meeting 27278
DATE: February 15, 1978
Present: Chairman Floros; Trustees Murauskis & Richardson;
Village Manager Eppley; also, Library Board Members
Judy Bennett, Sam Hess, Sally Viger & Martha Hopkins,
their Attorney and Financial Advisor.
The entire meeting was devoted to a discussion of the Finance
Committee Chairman's suggestion that the Library Board of Mount
Prospect be dissolved and replaced either with an appointed Board
or have it operate as a Department of the Village.
Chairman Floros previously had met with a Study Committee of the
Library Board -- a Committee composed of Sam Hess, Judy Bennett,
and Sally Viger. Subsequently, Chairman Floros, in a memo dated
January 11, 1978, outlined to members of the Study Committee the
reasons why he favored changing the present system. Members of
the Village Board received a copy of that memo.
The Study Committee of the Library Board presented a report
entitled: "Comprehensive Study and Evaluation of Future Opera-
tional Alternatives for the Village Library: To Improve Lines of
Communication Between the Two Boards". The report concluded
that (a) the present system should be retained, (b) the district
concept be investigated, and, (c) that the Library and Village
Boards should appoint communications liaisons as a means of
facilitating the interchange of information.
There was considerable discussion involving the Library and Village
officials and members of the audience. Most of those in the
audience spoke against the proposal to dissolve the elected
Library Board.
The Chairman said he thought that nothing further could be
gained in discussing the matter at the Committee level. The
Committee then voted 2 (Floros 4 Murauskis) to 1 (Richardson)
to recommend that the question of dissolving the Library Board
and replacing it with an appointed Board be submitted to the
voters of Mount Prospect in a referendum. The Chairman said he
would not report the Committee action until the February 21
meeting of the Village Board, and said he would ask that no vote
be taken at the Board level at that February 21 meeting.
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The Library Board representatives asked that the Village Board
consider its recommendation to have the Library and Village
Boards appoint communications liaisons to facilitate the inter-
change of information between the Boards.
Leo Floros
Chairman
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