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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES
February 20, 1992
The North Richland Hills Library Board met in the board room of
the library on February 20, at 7 p.m. Present were Polly
Brinkley, Jan Daniels, Jay Bradshaw, Brenda Cody, Rosemary Herod,
Alisa Wood, Kay Schmidt, Shirley Goolsby, Arlita Hallam and
Brenda Lewis.
Chairman Jay Bradshaw called the meeting to order; the minutes of
the November 21, 1991 meeting were approved as written.
Library Director Arlita Hallam's report included:
Following discussion on a letter concerning information in
the Polk City Directory, Chairman Bradshaw advised board
members that the matter will be handled by the City
Manager's office.
The comparative statistics generated by the Lewisville
Public Library and included with this month's packet were
reviewed.
The Mayor's Action Line, which began February 1, has been
extremely busy with calls from concerned citizens. The
library parking lot situation has been the only library-
related call. Arlita stated that work crews plan to begin
pouring asphalt next week.
Kay Schmidt reported on County Commissioner Dionne Bagsby's
January 30 meeting which she, Arlita and other members attended.
Commissioner Bagsby began this information-gathering process to
respond to her constituency's concern for more stable library
funding. Jan Daniels volunteered to chair a committee (with
members Arlita Hallam, Cate Dixon, Linda Allmand, and Jerline
Harvey) that will, over the next few months, look at district/re-
gional library systems in other states to find the best features
of each to incorporate into a plan that might be feasible for
Tarrant County. Commissioner Bagsby's group will also work on
clarifying goals and objectives and organizing a support base
Library Board Minutes
February 20, 1992
from the community to work for eventual legislation. The board
will plan to attend the next session, possibly in April.
Extensive discussion and review followed on the revisions and
updates of the NRH Library Plan of Service for 1992-97. The new
plan will be presented at the March meeting.
Drafts of proposed revised library policy were distributed for
study. Policy updates will be on the March agenda.
Arlita said that the library will be conducting output measures
surveys of library patrons during three-hour periods each day the
week of March 23. Board members volunteered to hand out surveys
at specified times during that week.
Board reviewed the staff recommendations to revise the exemptions
for non-resident library card fees to include non-resident tax-
payers and library volunteers. Kay Schmidt moved that city staff
be included in addition to these recommendations. Alisa Wood
seconded, and motion carried to recommend this proposed policy
change to administration/council. Board will propose change of
wording to previous ordinance on exemptions to read "Certified
Teachers" in BISD.
Kay reported on the North Texas Library Workshop on Long-Range
Planning that Arlita Hallam presented here and in Iowa Park
recently. Using the NRHPL's 5-year plan as an example, Arlita
walked through the process with the 48 workshop attendees. By
the end of the day, the participants had prepared a basic plan
for their own planning process. Kay said the workshop was
wonderfully received.
The next meeting was scheduled for March 12.
This meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m.
Brenda Lewis
Date
Board Chair
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NON-RESIDENT EXEMPTIONS
Fort Worth:
1. Property-owners who show real estate tax receipt.
2. Business owners showing lease with their name on it.
3. Non-resident library employees.
4. Non-resident library volunteers who work more than 100
hours per year.
5. Students of any age who volunteer eight hours per year.
Euless:
1. Bedford and Hurst residents.
2. Non-resident city employees.
3. Teachers in HEB school district.
4. Business and property owners (unwritten policy).
Hurst:
1. Property owners showing real or personal property tax
receipt for the City of Hurst.
Watauqa:
1. City employees only.
Haltom City:
1. city employees only.
Arlinqton:
1. Exempt property owners showing real property tax
receipt (administrative decision - not council action).
Grapevine:
1. Tarrant County residents.
2. Property owners - call tax office to verify that they
are personal or real estate property owners.
3. Colleyville and Southlake residents covered by
interlocal agreement for $20,000 and $15,000
respectively.
Bedford: No non-resident fee.
Richland Hills: No non-resident fees.
North Richland Hills:
1. BISD school teachers only.
LIBRARY PATRON COUNT BY RESIDENCE CODE
February 2, 1992
Arlington
Azle
Bedford
Blue Mound
Colleyville
Euless
Fort Worth
Grapevine
Haslet
Haltom city
Hurst
Keller
Richland Hills
Roanoke
Saginaw
South lake
Trophy Club
Watauga
All Others
TOTAL NON-RESIDENTS
EXEMPT (BISD TEACHERS)
RESIDENTS (NRH)
TOTAL PATRQNS
36
1
93
10
63
29
818
21
29
340
101
427
174
95
28
24
3
3,933
106
6,331
151
20,471
26,953