<div dir="ltr"><div>If you have library staff members, including library director, serving on your library board committees as full voting members, I would like to hear your experiences with this and how it works or does not work for your library. For instance, do you have staff members on your board's Finance committee who vote on the library's budget?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>JM<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="102"><col width="440"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:88.5pt"><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://loutitlibrary.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:90px;height:85px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/KDROx3Zdagl6MbfWlmsqh86jH1RGsDHU8rOA2-L59L77o85sd6LWfrhK8BhBeQD7f1cowhHFoT_XeVHpVaGBXs4l_17aZBp1Km4KHExADfX5EoiQLRKo0QYXBJWHLUpvKdxgXr3y" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="90" height="85"></span></span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#006bb3;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">John Martin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Library Director</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">he/him (</span><a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">what’s this?</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">616.850.6912 |</span><a href="http://loutitlibrary.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#006bb3;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">loutitlibrary.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">407 Columbus Ave. Grand Haven, MI 49417</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;color:#568e10;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Expanding Horizons. Enriching M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