CONTRACT FOR LIBRARY SERVICE FOR HOWARD COUNTY

This contract is made and entered into this 10th day of May, 1999, by and between the Howard County Board of Supervisors on behalf of Howard County, Iowa, herein after called the county, and the Board of Trustees of the public libraries in the cities of Cresco, Elma, Lime Springs and Riceville, Iowa, herein after called the libraries. The parties do hereby agree, acknowledge and contract as follows that:

  1. Howard County, Iowa, does not have a county library as provided in Chapter 358B of the Code of Iowa.

  2. All of the cities named above have libraries which are supported by levies upon the property in their respective corporation.

  3. It is mutually desired by all parties hereto that residents of the unincorporated areas of Howard County receive library service from any library mentioned above upon an equal basis whether such patrons and residents live within the corporate limits of said cities, and that this contract is made in accordance with the provisions of chapter 303A, 303B, 358B and 28E of the Code of Iowa.

  4. Each and all of the above libraries agree to loan library materials to all residents of the unincorporated areas of Howard County, Iowa upon the same terms and conditions as the libraries loan materials to the residents of the cities in which said libraries are located.

  5. The libraries will not decrease the amount of support received through taxation within their respective corporation due to the receiving of these monies.

  6. Funds received from the county according to this agreement shall be used for the purchase of materials, equipment and services. These funds shall not be used for capital improvements.

  7. The County shall appropriate no less than $26,600.00 for FY99/2000 in accordance with sections 303B.9 and 358. 18 of the Code of Iowa.

  8. Such funds shall be divided on the basis of the following formula as agreed to by the aforementioned libraries, provided that no library shall receive from the County funds greater than the amount of its local financial support.

    PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMULA FOR DIVISION OF FUNDS

    Cresco Public Library100% participation
    Elma Public Library100% participation
    Lime Springs Public Library100% participation
    Riceville Public Library40% participation*
    *This agreement was reached and voted on at a special meeting of the Howard County Library Association November 20, 1995 in Cresco, Iowa. The agreed-upon change will become effective July 1, 1996.

    FORMULA FOR DIVISION OF FUNDS

    40% - Equally
    24% - determined by hours open
    24% - determined by amount spent on books
    12% - determined by amount spent on periodicals and audiovisual materials.

    (See attached schedule for division of funds FY1999-2000)

  9. Distribution of the funds pursuant to paragraph 8 herein shall be made as follows: one-half (1/2) on the fifteenth of October of each fiscal year, and one-half (1/2) on the fifteenth of April of each fiscal year.

  10. Any aforementioned library or libraries may waive the right to that fiscal year's allocation of tax money. Said notice of waiver is to be filed in the County Auditor's office. Any funds waived by a library or libraries shall be redistributed in the same fiscal year to the remaining libraries according to the agreed distribution formula.

  11. This agreement shall remain in effect for a period of one (1) year beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2000.

  12. Each city library shall submit annually to the County the following documents:
    1. A completed copy of the State Library's Public Library survey for the previous fiscal year.
    2. A copy of the library's current and projected expenditures.
    3. Statistics reflecting the use of the library by rural Howard County patrons.

  13. The County may withhold any library's funds for failure to comply with any provision of this contract. The withheld funds will be redistributed among the remaining libraries according to paragraph 8 herein.

  14. The County shall be authorized to appoint one rural resident as a member of the Board of Trustees of each library, at such time and for such term as is provided by the governing instrument of each library.

  15. This terminates a prior agreement entered into on May 18, 1998 and consent to the replacement of the former contract with this contract.

Signatures of the Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors and the Board President of each library follow.

Signed May 10, 1999

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