REPORT TITLE:
Public Libraries


DESCRIPTION:
Eliminates special assistant to state librarian position;
establishes business manager position for public libraries.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1633
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC LIBRARY OPERATIONS. 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the Hawaii state
 
 2 library system could be streamlined to operate more efficiently
 
 3 by establishing a position of business manager, to be an
 
 4 appointed position subject to civil service.  The legislature
 
 5 further finds that a business manager could assume many of the
 
 6 existing functions of the assistant librarian.  The legislature
 
 7 further finds that the salary of the assistant librarian is an
 
 8 unnecessary cost to the State.  A business manager could be hired
 
 9 in a civil service capacity at a lesser salary.  Any savings
 
10 could be applied to the salary of the state librarian.
 
11      The purpose of this Act is to convert the position of
 
12 special assistant to the state librarian to a business manager
 
13 position for the public library system.
 
14      SECTION 2.  Section 312-2.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
15 amended to read as follows:
 
16      "[[]§312-2.2[]  Special assistant to the state librarian;]
 
17 Business manager; appointment and duties[; secretary].  The state
 
18 librarian shall appoint subject to chapters 76 and 77, [a special
 
19 assistant to the state librarian who shall serve at the pleasure
 

 
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 1 of the state librarian and] a business manager who shall
 
 2 generally assist the state librarian, as the state librarian may
 
 3 require, in the initiation, direction, or monitoring of
 
 4 administrative or managerial special projects, studies,
 
 5 investigations, and any other assignments that the state
 
 6 librarian determines to be necessary.  In addition, the [special
 
 7 assistant] business manager shall, as the state librarian may
 
 8 direct, serve as the state librarian's representative to, and
 
 9 monitor and apprise the state librarian of the activities of the
 
10 various national, regional, state, and local organizations and
 
11 committees in which the state librarian has membership,
 
12 participation, or interest.  [The special assistant to the state
 
13 librarian shall be appointed without regard to chapters 76 and
 
14 77, and shall hold no other public or private office or
 
15 employment.  Section 26-53 shall not be applicable to the special
 
16 assistant to the state librarian.  The state librarian may also
 
17 appoint, without regard to chapters 76 and 77, one secretary for
 
18 the special assistant to the state librarian.  The secretary for
 
19 the special assistant to the state librarian shall serve at the
 
20 pleasure of the state librarian.]" 
 
21      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
22 New statutory material is underscored.
 

 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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 3                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________