Information

Type: Deliberation

Department: BOCC - Board of County Commissioners

Directors' Update: June 7, 2023

Business Meeting: June 13, 2023

Summary:

Appoint Brian Mittge to the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees

Publications:

Cover Letter To: Brian Mittge: brianmittge@gmail.com Rose Enos-Weedmark: renosweedmark@trl.org

Additional Copies To:

Resolution

WHEREAS, the Timberland Regional Library (TRL) is a public library system that provides library services to the residents of five counties in Southwest Washington -- Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston -- as allowed under RCW 27.12; and

WHEREAS, the Timberland Regional Library is governed by a seven-member Board of Trustees, its decision-making authority that performs a variety of tasks, such as

• Approving the annual budget
• Helping draft the library district's Strategic Plan
• Helping hire and review the performance of the executive director

WHEREAS, county commissioners from each of the participating counties appoint an individual to serve on the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees, and two additional trustees -- including one from Lewis County and one from Thurston County -- fill at-large positions; and

WHEREAS, Brian Zylstra, who had served as Lewis County's representative since February 2016, has stepped down, creating a vacancy; and

WHEREAS, Brian Mittge of Chehalis has expressed an interest in serving on the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees; and

WHEREAS, it appears to be in the best public interest to appoint Brian Mittge to the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners hereby appoints Brian Mittge to the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees to fill the remainder of Brian Zylstra's unexpired, seven-year term ending Dec. 31, 2029.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 13th day of June, 2023.