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Subchapter
002
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ORGANIZATION OF TOWN GOVERNMENT
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 107, § 2.07)
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§ 2.7. Board of Library Trustees
(a) The library of the Town of Brattleboro, the Brooks Memorial Library, is incorporated
under 22 V.S.A. chapter 3. It is also a Town department.
(b) The Board of Library Trustees is a body of nine persons serving three-year terms.
Three trustees shall be elected each year by the Representative Town Meeting from
among persons nominated by the Selectboard and the Board of Library Trustees and from
the floor of the annual Representative Town Meeting.
(c) The Board of Library Trustees shall establish the operating procedures and policies
of the Brooks Memorial Library and its branches, approve the library budget request
to be forwarded to the Selectboard, and employ a Library Director who shall be responsible
for executing the same through a library staff.
(d) Vacancies on the Board of Library Trustees shall be filled by the Selectboard upon
recommendation of the library trustees until the next annual Representative Town Meeting,
at which time a trustee shall be elected to serve for the remainder of the vacated
term. (Amended 2003, No. M-6, § 2; 2011, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 27, 2012.)