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Home My WebLink AboutAGENDA REPORT 2023 0314 LB REG ITEM 07C ITEM: 7.C. CITY OF MOORPARK MOORPARK LIBRARY BOARD AGENDA REPORT TO: Moorpark Library Board FROM: Jessica Sandifer, Community Services Manager DATE: 03/14/2023 (Regular Meeting) SUBJECT: Consider Discontinuance of the Library Fundraising Ad Hoc Committee BACKGROUND At the July 2019 meeting, the Library Board convened an Ad Hoc Committee with the intended purpose of exploring options to support fundraising for the New Moorpark City Library. The Ad Hoc Committee and its group of interested community members, have met off and on over the last several years. DISCUSSION The City Attorney for the City of Moorpark has recently opined that an Ad Hoc Committee that is in existence for its stated purpose longer than two years, begins to tread into the area of being considered a Standing Committee of the Board. Even though standing Committees are only composed of two members of the board, they are subject to the Brown Act and all of the agenda, noticing, and minute requirements that the Library Board itself is subject to. In order to not subject the Ad Hoc Committee and its participants to the Standing Committee requirements, the Library Fundraising Ad Hoc Committee will need to be disbanded. Being subject to the requirements of the Brown Act would hinder the ability of the Committee to do the work they intend to do by overly complicating meetings and activities. The members of the Library Board that are on the committee and committed to fundraising for the library, can continue to meet and discuss options and strategies for library fundraising, however, they would just not be participating as members of the Library Board, but as interested community members or library patrons. Staff feels that the Ad Hoc Committee has been successful in that it has generated community interest in the new library and has formed a strong support group that can continue fundraising efforts in conjunction with the Moorpark Friends of the Library. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Discontinue Library Fundraising Ad Hoc Committee.