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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 5, 2022
City Clerk
STAFF
Tammi Pusheck, Privacy & Records Mgr.
Anissa Hollingshead, City Clerk
Ingrid Decker, Legal
SUBJECT
Resolution 2022-040 Ratifying the Appointment of Anuja Riles and Randyn Heisserer-Miller to the Poudre
River Library District Board of Trustees.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This item has been withdrawn from consideration.
The purpose of this item is to make appointments to the Poudre River Library District Board of Trustees. Anuja
Riles and Randyn Heisserer-Miller will be appointed to a first term.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
In November 2006, voters approved the formation of the Fort Collins Regional Library District. The name was
changed to the Poudre River Public Library District in February 2009. Council and County Commissioners
established the initial seven-member Board of Trustees for the District.
The intergovernmental agreement between the City, County and District sets out the process for appointing
Trustees. It provides that a committee comprised of two members of Council and two Commissioners will
recommend a candidate for appointment who must be ratified by a two -thirds majority of both the full Council
and the Commissioners.
The Committee, comprised of Mayor Pro Tem Emily Francis and Councilmember Julie Pignataro and Larimer
County Commissioners John Kefalas and Kristen Stephens, met on March 29, 2022. The three members of the
Committee present agreed to appoint Anuja Riles and Randyn Heisserer-Miller to fill two open seats on the
Board of Trustees. Janelle Brazington was also interviewed by the committee on March 29, 2022 and was
selected as a backup candidate.
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RESOLUTION 2022-040
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
RATIFYING THE APPOINTMENT OF ANUJA RILES AND
RANDYN HEISSERER-MILLER TO THE
POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES
WHEREAS, on November 7, 2006, the voters approved a citizen init iative to establish
and fund the Fort Collins Regional Library District, now called the Poudre River Public Library
District (the “Library District”), pursuant to Sections 24-90-101 to 606 of the Colorado Revised
Statutes (the “Library Law”); and
WHEREAS, the Library District is governed by a board of seven trustees appointed by
the City Council and Larimer County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Library Law, the City Council and Larimer County
Commissioners have each appointed two of their members to a committee (the “Committee”) to
fill open seats on the board of trustees of the Library District; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Bylaws of the Library District Board of Trustees, a trustee
may serve no more than two consecutive four-year terms, which are staggered so that typically
one or two trustees are appointed or reappointed every year; and
WHEREAS, there are two open seats on the Poudre River Library District Board of
Trustees; and
WHEREAS, on March 29, 2022, the Committee met and unanimously agreed to name
Anuja Riles and Randyn Heisserer-Miller to fill the two open seats on the Board; and
WHEREAS, the Committee also named Janelle Brazington as the backup candidate
should someone leave the Board unexpectedly before the next recruitment process; and
WHEREAS, Section 24-90-108(2)(c) of the Library Law requires that the Committee’s
trustee appointments be ratified by a two-thirds majority vote of the legislative body of each
governmental unit participating in the District.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That pursuant to the requirements of the Colorado Library Law, the City
Council, by a two-thirds majority vote of its members, hereby ratifies the Committee’s
appointment of Anuja Riles and Randyn Heisserer-Miller to the Board of Trustees of the Poudre
River Public Library District, each for a four-year term to expire April 2026, provided, however,
that such action is contingent upon the Larimer County Commissioners taking similar action.
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Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 5th
day of April, A.D. 2022.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk