Lake County, FL Library Advisory Board meeting for Aug. 15, 2019
Channel: FiscalRangersFlorida
Date: 16/08/2019

This is the August 15, 2019, monthly meeting of the Lake County, FL Library Advisory Board, chaired by Norma Emerson, with Director of the Lake County Library System (16 libraries), George Taylor.  The liaison from the Lake County Commissioners, Josh Blake, was also there.  

News included:

- The Eustis library is joining the Lake County library system to make 16 libraries in the system that shares software and books.

- The new Director of the Lake County Library System is George Taylor.

- The new librarian for two libraries were introduced.

- Library impact fee awards were announced:  Howey ($500,000), Tavares ($500,000) and Umatilla ($41,000).

- The Board's webpage contains links to agendas, lists of Board members and other info at:  https://www.lakecountyfl.gov/advisory_boards_and_committees/library_advisory_board.aspx  

- Director George Taylor gave a presentation of proposed annual objectives for the library system and the Board approved it. 

The next meeting will be on Sept. 19, 2019 at the new Fruitland Park Library.

No books were burned during the filming of this meeting.

Video by Lake County, FL Fiscal Watchdog blogger Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com.  
Short link to this video is:  https://youtu.be/zv7U3Qn_-NE 
Length of video is:  58 minutes
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