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Show TJ3D3C3 iGeSsia' By ROSELYN KIRK The Davis County Library Board Tuesday urged Davis County School District Superintendent Bernell Wrigley to ask the school board to move rapidly on a decision on purchase of the library building. THE LIBRARY board had voted to purchase the half of the building currently owned by the school board during their June meeting. Superintendent Superin-tendent Wrigley said the school board has not been able to act on the matter since the agendas have been so crowded with other matters, including a budget hearing. The request for urgency came after County Librarian Jeanne Layton told the board that the separation between the library and the schools has been partially accomplished. ac-complished. The processing center is now functioning as an arm of the library. STILL pending in the separation procedures are decisions on how the building, half owned by the county and half by the school will be disposed dis-posed of. The ownership of the library van is still not resolved, Miss Layton said. Mrs. Wilson pushed the school board to make a decision, saying, "We need a decision from the board soon. We have a budget to consider anrt wp nppd tn know their plans." SUPERINTENDENT Wrigley said he felt the schools had cooperated with the library board. He said the matter will be on the agenda when the school board meets on July 19, but he could not make any commitment as to whether the question would be resolved at that time. "The school board needs a bit of time to think things through," he said. Evan Whitesides, library board member and chairman of the fact-finding committee which investigated the separation procedures, said if the school board should vote to sell the building to the library, the appraisal of the facility would be the next step. HE EXPRESSED hope that the school board would cooperate with the library board in working through a time payment plan for the building unless funds are made available in a bulk sum by the county commission. Commissioner Wendell Zaugg, a member of the library board, said it would be necessary to call for a meeting of the county commission, com-mission, the school board and the library board after the school board makes a decision on the building. At that time apparently commissioners com-missioners would have to decide whether the money would be available in a lump sum. MR. WHITESIDES said if the county does not agree to provide the entire sum, estimated es-timated at between $50,000 and $75,000, the library' board wiill have to make payments on that amount over a three-year three-year period. If the school board decides to sell the building, the library board appointed Miss Layton to follow through on obtaining an appraisal. Miss Layton reported that the split had resulted in the termination of two full-time library employees and six part-time emploj'ees since the bulk of books processed by the library wil) decrease. COMMISSIONER Zaugg said the county commission had questioned whether library employees' sick leave, vacation time and retirement should be transferred since they had been formerly employed by the school board. He asked that a breakdown of the costs involved be presented to the commission, along with figures on the dollar costs to the county. Miss Layton said this procedure has been followed in the past when other transfers from the school district dis-trict to the county and from the county to the school district dis-trict were made. She doesn't consider a transfer of these benefits as a problem since no transfer of funds, only a transfer of time, is involved. IN WORKING through the problem of the ownership of the van, Miss Layton agreed to check with Hollis Grange, secretary of the school board. They will flip a coin or draw straws to determine who will get the present van. The two boards will share equally in the purchase of another van for the other agency. |