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Appointment to the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative (Board of County Commissioners as a whole).
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Recommended Action:
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Approve one appointment to the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative (PPLC) Board of Directors.
• Per the PPLC Interlocal Agreements, three members of the PPLC Board of Directors shall be county senior management employees, representing Pinellas County, who shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners upon the recommendation of the County Administrator.
• The County Administrator recommends appointing B.J. Gavin, Community Coordinator for Unincorporated North Pinellas County.
• Mr. Gavin will replace Nancy McKibben who is set to retire from Pinellas County Government on July 31, 2025.
• No ballot is necessary. A voice vote will suffice.
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Background Information:
There is an established municipal service taxing unit under the name of the Pinellas County Library Services District. In administering this district, the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) entered an interlocal agreement in 1989 with governmental units and other appropriate providers of library services within the County to establish a nonprofit corporation (cooperative) to be created for the administration and operation of a cooperative library services system.
The purpose of the cooperative is to extend library services to unincorporated areas of the County and of participating municipalities that do not have such services, and to improve library services to citizens of municipalities and of library tax districts that have library services.
Per Section III.B.1. of the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative (PPLC) Interlocal Agreement executed on September 25, 2018, the PPLC Board of Directors
consists of nine (9) voting members who shall be selected and appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation and the By-laws as follows:
a. Four members of the Board of Directors shall be the City Administrator of the City of St. Petersburg and the City Managers of Clearwater, Largo and Pinellas Park, or their senior management designees.
b. Three members of the Board of Directors shall be county senior management employees representing Pinellas County, who shall be appointed by the BCC upon the recommendation of the Pinellas County Administrator.
c. Two members of the Board of Directors shall be appointed by the Board of County
Commissioners and shall serve a term of three (3) years.
Attachments:
Board Roster
B.J. Gavin Application/ Resume
Partner(s):
Cheryl Morales, Executive Director, Pinellas Public Library Cooperative