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Library Department recommending the Board:
1) Approve payment of past due NorthNet Library System invoice in the amount of $2,425 related to El Dorado County's portion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 CalPERS Unfunded Accrued Liability (UAL) for former employees of the Mountain Valley Library System, a cooperative library system that the County is a part of; and
2) Authorize the Director of Library Services to approve payment of El Dorado County’s share of the CalPERS UAL cost for former Mountain Valley Library System employees for future fiscal years in an amount not to exceed of $5,000 per fiscal year.
FUNDING: 52% Library Taxes and 48% General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
El Dorado County is a member of the Mountain Valley Library system ("MVLS"), a cooperative library system established in 1969 by joint resolutions adopted by the County along with Placer County, City of Roseville, Sacramento City-County Library System, Sutter County Library, and Marysville City Library. MVLS currently has 17 member libraries. MVLS entered into a contract with CalPERS to provide retirement benefits for its employees effective March 21, 1992. Since July 1, 2006, MVLS has not employed any staff, instead contracting out with North Bay and subsequently with NorthNet Library System (“NorthNet”). NorthNet provides account services to MVLS.
El Dorado County Library has membership in the NorthNet Library System via Memorandum of Understanding 8793 and includes Link+ services, Library to Go, and eligibility for state grants under the California Library Services Act ("CSLA").
The Link+ resource sharing system is a product of Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Link+ allows library patrons who are logged onto their library account to request a book and other materials from any of the over seventy participating public and academic libraries in California and have it delivered to their home library for checkout. Libraries in our region as big as Sacramento Public Library and as ...
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