§ 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.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 107 - Town of Brattleboro
App § 2.4. Representative Town Meeting
App § 2.6. Board of School Directors
App § 2.7. Board of Library Trustees
App § 2.8. Consolidation of services
App § 2.9. Conflict of interest
App § 2.10. Limits on terms of office
App § 4.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 4.6. General powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Selectboard
App § 5.1. General powers; duties; responsibilities of the Town Manager
App § 6.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 6.6. General powers and responsibilities of the School Directors
App § 7.1. Capital expenditures
App § 7.2. Capital Grant Review Board
App § 7.4. Reappraisal of property
App § 7.5. Lapse of appropriation
App § 7.7. Borrowing in anticipation of taxes
App § 7.8. Office of Assessment
App § 10.1. Representative Town Meeting; authorized
App § 10.2. Districts; report of Selectboard; meetings; voting
App § 10.4. Nomination of candidates; preparation and delivery of ballots; return of unused ballots
App § 10.5. Resignation or disqualification of members; vacancies; how filled
App § 10.6. Voting; members to receive no compensation; quorum; warning
App § 10.7. Articles in warning; action on
App § 10.9. Interpretation of Town acts
App § 11.1. Description of officers, officials, boards, commissions, and committees