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this is a sunshine task force determination finding luis herrera, the city librarian, in violation of withholding public records because the only records they will release are what the friends say they gave and they have nothing they have produced to substantiate anything that the library actually got, whether in cash or in kind. so the library commission is not watching what theyre doing although theyre raising more than $5 million a year and spending another $2 million of priorly rai...

out the names of the committees before we draw them from a box. >> and i get to select the member of the public. why dont we do different people for each of the three sets. >> that sounds good. it looks like we have a volunteer. >> it would you like to do whatever set she considers first. are there any questions or do we take comment before the process or is this simply procedural? are you volunteering? >> i had public comment on the selection. could i make that now prior to? >> yes. >...

weve discussed this at many meetings, staff of the commission and at the library have been very diligent. this is ripe and timely for your action and i support the motion before you. thanks. >> are there any other comments? seeing none, well proceed to the vote. all in favor, please say aye. >> aye. >> thank you very much. the next item is selection of random audits for 2011 electoral committee. mr. st. croix, would you or ms. shaikh like to describe the process that we carry on and yo...

committees that dont necessarily have many resources and have asked that we focus our attention more on committees with higher levels of financial activity. >> at this point, lets see if the commissioners have any questions or comments about the allocation or the process. either of you? >> the only comment that i would have is it does seem to me to make more stones put our efforts into those committees that spend a much greater amount of money than the grass roots committees which real...

selecting five committees for audit and they will be selected from three different levels of financial activity and we will have a member of the public read out the names of the committees before we draw them from a box. >> and i get to select the member of the public. why dont we do different people for each of the three sets. >> that sounds good. it looks like we have a volunteer. >> it would you like to do whatever set she considers first. are there any questions or do we take comme...

$35,000 in a discretionary fund two years in a row and more. what do the library friends get? naming opportunities, $1 million they boast in book sales, most or all of them obtained through the librarys collection assistance. imbibe, a party that the library has after hours on given friday so that the friends can use their facility to make money. is any of that contractual? i dont think so. the main annual author dinner, the step sales where discarded books are put out by library worke...