379.0222 - Trustees of consolidated library district: Appointment; terms; compensation; removal; executive director.
379.0222 Trustees of consolidated library district: Appointment; terms; compensation; removal; executive director.
1. After the consolidation of a city into a county library district, the board of county commissioners and the governing body of the city shall each appoint five competent persons who are residents of the new consolidated library district to serve as trustees.
2. The terms of office of the trustees appointed pursuant to subsection 1 are as follows:
(a) Three persons appointed by each governing body must be appointed for terms of 4 years.
(b) Two persons so appointed must be appointed for terms of 2 years.
Ê Thereafter the offices of trustees must be filled for terms of 4 years in the order in which the terms expire. No person may be appointed to hold office for more than two consecutive terms.
3. A vacancy in the office of trustee which occurs because of the expiration of the term must be filled by appointment for a term of 4 years. A vacancy which occurs other than by expiration of the term must be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.
4. The trustees are entitled to receive a salary of $40 per meeting, but not more than $80 per month, in addition to the travel and subsistence allowances in the same amounts as are provided for employees of the consolidated library district.
5. The board of county commissioners or governing body of the city, as the case may be, may remove any trustee appointed by it:
(a) For cause, as described in NRS 283.440; or
(b) Who fails, without good cause, to attend three successive meetings of the trustees.
6. The trustees may appoint an executive director for the consolidated library district who serves at the pleasure of the trustees.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 7; A 1989, 613; 1993, 2547)