Legal Documents of Sweetwater

A board for the operation and maintenance of a public library system in the City of Sweetwater is hereby created and established and is hereafter referred to as the library board. Said board shall consist of nine (9) members. The Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Sweetwater shall appoint a city commissioner, who shall be designed in addition to his other duties as library commissioner, to serve as a non-voting ex officio member of the library board. No other city commissioner may serve on the board. Nothing in this section shall interfere with the composition of the library board as it is presently constituted for the balance of the terms of its members. The nine (9) voting members of the board shall be residents of the geographical area served by the library. The members shall serve without salary. The members shall serve three (3) year staggered terms.

Board members may serve two (2) consecutive terms and may be reappointed after a minimum three (3) year break in service. (Ord. #532, June 1982, as amended by Ord. #575, Sept. 1985, Ord. #676, Aug. 1995, Ord. #967, Sept. 2018 Ch7_02-07-22, and replaced by Ord. #1008, Aug. 2022 Ch8_08-05-24)