Regents-Approved Library Charter Actions: 2017
Note: See also below for the same chart in reverse chronological order, with newest first.
2017
Charter Actions By System |
Old (2016) |
New (2017) |
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Date | Name | Library ID Code |
Community/ County |
System | Action | Detail | *Pre-Charter Action Population | Type | Area | *Current Population | Type | Area |
3/13/2017 | Hazeltine Public Library | 1200060960 | Busti/Chautauqua | Chautauqua-Cattaraugus | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 15 trustees, the current number being 5; and to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provisions. | 4,349 | Public | Town | 4,349 | Public | Town |
9/12/2017 | Ellington Farman Library | 1200062100 | Ellington/Chautauqua |
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus | Absolute Charter to Replace Provisional Charter | Provisional Charter made absolute. | 1,643 | Association | Town | 1,643 | Association | Town |
6/13/2017 | Hammond Library of Crown Point, N.Y. | 2000151660 | Crown Point/Essex | Clinton-Essex-Franklin | Charter Amendment and Extension of Provisional Charter | Provisional Charter is amended to clarify that the service area of the library is the Crown Point Central School District; to change the corporation name to Hammond Library of Crown Point; to add the IRS provision; and to extend the provisional charter as amended. | 2,011 | Public | School District | 2,011 | Public | School District |
3/13/2017 | Belden Noble Memorial Library of Essex | 2000152160 | Essex/Essex | Clinton-Essex-Franklin | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to change the method of appointment of trustees to be election by members of the board of trustees and to designate trustee terms of three years. | 671 | Association | Town | 671 | Association | Town |
6/13/2017 | Seymour Public Library District | 2400050330 | Auburn/Cayuga | Finger Lakes | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to change the number of trustees from the current number of 7 to 9 trustees. | 34,450 | Public | Special Legislative District | 34,450 | Public | Special Legislative District |
4/4/2017 | Bovina Library Association | 2800120780 | Bovina Center/ Delaware |
Four County | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to change the name of the corporation from “Bovina Library Association” to “Bovina Public Library”; to designate the service area to be the Town of Bovina; and to specify a range of 5 to 9 trustees, the current number being 5. | 633 | Association | Town | 633 | Association | Town |
5/9/2017 | Kinney Memorial Library | 2800472810 | Hartwick/Otsego | Four County | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 7 to 11 trustees, the current number being 7; to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provisions; and to designate the service area to be the Town of Hartwick. | 2,110 | Public | Town | 2,110 | Public | Town |
10/17/2017 | Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library | 3200482455 | Garrison/Putnam | Mid-Hudson | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to designate trustee terms of three years. | 7,021 | Association | Other | 7,021 | Association | Other |
6/13/2017 | Patterson Library | 3200484980 | Patterson/Putnam | Mid-Hudson | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 15 trustees, change the number of trustees required to alter the number of trustees within this range from three-fourths as stated in the absolute charter to a majority of the current number of serving trustees as designated in the library’s bylaws; and to add the Commissioner of Education designation provision. | 12,023 | Association | Town | 12,023 | Association | Town |
9/12/2017 | Olive Free Library Association | 3200626990 | West Shokan/Ulster | Mid-Hudson | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 7 to 11 trustees, with the current number being 10; to designate the service area to be the Town of Olive; and to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provisions. | 4,419 | Association | Town | 4,419 | Association | Town |
3/13/2017 | West Hurley Public Library | 3200626950 | West Hurley/Ulster | Mid-Hudson | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 7 to 11 trustees, the current number being 7. | 3,352 | Public | Special Legislative District | 3,352 | Public | Special Legislative District |
5/9/2017 | Erwin Library and Institute | 3600410760 | Boonville/Oneida | Mid York | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to designate the service area to be the Village of Boonville; to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provisions; to specify a range of 5 to 20 trustees, the current number being 5; and to designate trustee terms of three years. | 2,072 | Association | Village | 2,072 | Association | Village |
11/14/2017 | Friends of the Henrietta Public Library | N/A | Henrietta/Monroe | Monroe County | Certificate of Incorporation Amendment | Amended to change the corporation’s name to “The Friends and Foundation of the Henrietta Public Library” and change the purpose of the corporation to be “to assist the Henrietta Public Library by raising funds to enhance the library.” | ||||||
12/12/2017 | Corfu Public Library | 5200181560 | Corfu/Genesee | Nioga | Provisional Charter | A new school district public library is established to serve the residents of the Pembroke Central School District; trustee terms of three years with a range of 5-15 trustees, the current number being 7. Succeeds the Corfu Free Library. | 4,292 | Association | Town | 6,816 | Public | School District |
3/13/2017 | Community Free Library | 5200453000 | Holley/Orleans | Nioga | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 15 trustees, the current number being 10 and to designate trustee terms of three years. | 8,636 | Association | Town | 8,636 | Association | Town |
4/4/2017 | William H. Bush Memorial Library | 5600233940 | Martinsburg/Lewis | North Country | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 15 trustees, the current number being 7 and to add the IRS provision. | 1,433 | Association | Town | 1,433 | Association | Town |
12/12/2017 | Norwood Public Library | 5600514690 | Norwood/St. Lawrence | North Country | Extension of Provisional Charter | To extend provisional charter | 2,967 | Public | Special Legislative District | 2,967 | Public | Special Legislative District |
9/12/2017 | Fayetteville Free Library | 6000422220 | Fayetteville/Onondaga | Onondaga | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 15 trustees, with the current number being 7 and to designate trustee terms of three years; to eliminate the ex officio positions for the ‘President of the Village of Fayetteville’ and the ‘President of the Fayetteville Board of Education’; and to designate the library’s service area to be all of the Village of Fayetteville and those portions of the Fayetteville Manlius Central School District as described by specific 2010 census blocks. | 10,314 | Association | Other | 10,347 | Association | Other |
9/12/2017 | Solvay Public Library | 6000426160 | Solvay/Onondaga | Onondaga | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 9 trustees, with the current number being 6 and to designate trustee terms of five years. | 6,584 | Public | Village | 6,584 | Public | Village |
10/17/2017 | Bristol Library | 6400430860 | Bristol/Ontario | Pioneer | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended designate trustee terms of three years; to designate the library's service area to be coterminous with the Town of Bristol; and to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provisions. | 2,315 | Association | Town | 2,315 | Association | Town |
3/13/2017 | Phelps Community Memorial Library | 6400435070 | Phelps/Ontario | Pioneer | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to change the name of the corporation from Phelps Community Memorial Library to Phelps Library. | 7,072 | Association | Town | 7,072 | Association | Town |
6/13/2017 | Tuxedo Park Library | 7200446540 | Tuxedo Park/Orange | Ramapo-Catskill | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 5 to 9 trustees, with the current number being 8 and to designate trustee terms of three years; and to change the quorum number from four to a majority of current board members as stated in the library's bylaws. | 3,624 | Association | Town | 3,624 | Association | Town |
10/17/2017 | Woman's Round Lake Improvement Society | 7600525710 | Round Lake/Saratoga | Southern Adirondack | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to designate trustee terms of five years. | 14,765 | Association | Town | 14,765 | Association | Town |
9/12/2017 | Katonah Village Library | 8800663340 | Katonah/Westchester | Westchester | Charter Amendment | Charter is amended to specify a range of 9 to 15 trustees, with the current number being 12 and to add the IRS and Commissioner of Education designation provision. | 6,298 | Association | Other | 6,298 | Association | Other |
NOTES:
- The phrase ”IRS provision” refers to: the IRS dissolution language necessary for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)3.
- The phrase “Commissioner of Education designation provision” refers to: the designation of the Commissioner of Education as the representative of the corporation upon whom process in any action or proceeding against it may be served.
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June 15, 2023 -- asm