Amendment to the By-Laws of the
Andrew Carnegie Free Library
Approved January 5, 1998
The following amendment, to the By-Laws of the Andrew Carnegie
Free Library, was approved by a unanimous vote(twelve Trustees in
attendance--no abstentions) of the
Library Board of
Trustees, at the Adjourned, Special Meeting of Monday Evening, January 5,
1998[shortly after 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time], held in the Council
Chamber of the Borough of Carnegie, One Glass Street, Carnegie,
Pennsylvania 15106.
Amendment and Motion was proposed
and prepared by Life Trustee Glenn A. Walsh, Secretary(Acting) of the
Library Board of Trustees. Vote - Aye: 12, Nay: 0, Abstentions: 0[Note:
By-Laws require that twelve affirmative votes(two-thirds majority of
17-member Board of Trustees) must be cast for an amendment to the
By-Laws to be approved].
TENTH AMENDMENT - AMENDING SECTION 6, MEETINGS, TO PROVIDE FOR
THE PRESIDENT TO PROPOSE AN ANNUAL SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS TO BE APPROVED
BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING
This amendment replaces the first two sentences of Section 6 of the Andrew
Carnegie Free Library By-Laws as
approved on April 9, 1900 and modified
by the
Eighth Amendment on September 18, 1995:
"MEETINGS
Section 6. The regular Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be
held in March of each year, at which meeting officers of the Board shall
be elected, statements and reports of Officers and Committees of the
previous year received, and such other business transacted as may properly
be brought before the meeting. At the Annual Meeting, the date and time of
the regular Monthly meetings for the following twelve months, and the
Annual Meeting in March of the next year, shall be approved by the
Board. This Annual Schedule of Meetings shall be proposed by the
President, and this proposal must be included in the meeting notice for
the Annual Meeting.
The Board shall meet on a monthly basis, no less than ten times per year.
The location of meetings shall be the Andrew Carnegie Free Library, unless
specifically indicated otherwise."
[Special Note: This amendment amends Section 6,
Meetings, which
was first authorized by the original By-Laws approval of April 9, 1900
and amended by the
Eighth Amendment on September 18, 1995.]
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