SANTA PAULA : Library District to Give Up Jurisdiction
The Santa Paula Union High School Public Library District board has agreed to relinquish its jurisdiction over Santa Paula’s only public library.
The five-member board gave permission Wednesday to the Blanchard Community Library Commission to look into ways of forming its own governing board, commission chairman Eugene Marzec said.
The five-member commission has worked under the board’s supervision to administer the library since 1968, Marzec said. Both commission and board members concluded that the decision-making process would be much simpler with one governing body, he added.
“We now have to think in terms of when we make decisions, what would the high school board want,” he said. “It doesn’t make any sense to have two groups governing the library.”
Marzec said an independent governing board would likely have to be approved by voters through a ballot measure and would take about two years to form. Commissioners are looking into ways of doing this, he said.
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