Jacksonville Public Library Illinois FOIA Information
- A brief description of the public body is as follows:
- The library’s mission is to provide information resources to entertain, educate, enrich, and empower our patrons and our community.
- The total amount of the library’s operating budget for FY2024 is: $771,390. Funding sources include property taxes and personal property replacement taxes, state and federal grants, fines, fees, and gifts.
- The library is located at this address: Jacksonville Public Library, 201 West College Avenue, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650.
- The library employs the following number of persons: 7 full-time and 10 part-time.
- The Jacksonville Public Library Board of Trustees exercises control over the library’s policies. The board meets on the second Monday of each month at 5:00 pm in the library’s conference room. The board members are Mary Fergurson, President; Kevin Eckhoff, Vice-President, Elizabeth Kennedy, Secretary; Laura Bandy, Noel Beard, Beth Capo, Lisa Haley, Forrest Keaton, and Katie Weeks.
- The library is required to be answerable for our operations to: the City council of the City of Jacksonville and the Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois. The State Library’s members are: Secretary of State and State Librarian, Alexi Giannoulias; Director of the State Library, Greg McCormick, and various other staff.
- You may request the information and records available to the public in the following manner:
- Requests must be submitted in writing. You may use the request form, but it is not required.
- Your request should be directed to the library FOIA officer: Jake Magnuson, Library Director. If e-mailing, please send your requests to director@jaxpl.org, and include FOIA in the subject line.
- You must specify the records requested to be disclosed for inspection or to be copied. If you desire that any record be certified, you must specify which ones.
- To reimburse us our actual costs for reproducing and certifying (if requested) the records, you will be charged the following fees: $.10 per page for employee copied records (first fifty (50) copies are free) and $1.00 per page for certification of records.
- The library will respond to written requests within five (5) working days. An extension of an additional five (5) days may be necessary to properly respond.
- Records may be inspected or copied. If inspected, an employee must be present through the inspection.
- The place and times where records will be available are as follows: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Jacksonville Public Library, 201 West College Avenue, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650.
- Certain types of information maintained by the library are exempt from inspection or copying. However, the following types or categories of records are maintained under our control:
- Monthly Financial Statements
- Annual Receipts and Disbursement Reports
- Annual Audits
- Grant Files
- Operating Budgets
- Minutes of the Library Board of Trustee Meetings
- Library Policies, including Materials Selection
- Annual Reports to the Illinois State Library
- Contracts and Bids