3.    All requests to examine such records must be forwarded to the Library on the appropriate request         form [Downloadable FOIL application at end of document]

4.    The fee for photocopying such records shall be $.25 (twenty-five cents) per page, or the actual        cost of reproducing any other record. 

5.    Records may not be removed from the Library Director’s office.

6.    The Library shall, in accordance with its published rules, make available by photocopy or        inspection the following:
            a)   Library Board meeting minutes;
            b)   Legal agreements, contracts;
            c)   Records of library receipts and expenditures, including checks;
            d)   Lists of employees and their remuneration;
            e)   Employee organization contracts;
            f)    Insurance policies;
            g)   Audits, either internal or external;
            h)   Newsletters, annual reports, Board approved long range plans;
             i)    Election information, such as sample ballots, election challenge records, candidate                     designation or nomination records, including petitions with personal identifying                      information redacted;
            j)    Bank statements;
            k)   Annual budget, financial reports, annual fiscal reports;
            l)    General ledger;
            m) Incorporation and charter records;
            n)   Association membership lists with personal identifying information redacted;
            o)   Register or list of applicants seeking access to records;
            p)   Correspondence.

7.    In accordance with Library Policy, the Library shall not make available by photocopy or inspection         records that:
            a)   are specifically exempted from disclosure by state or federal statute;
            b)   if disclosed would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;
           c)     if disclosed would impair present or imminent contract awards or collective bargaining                    negotiations;
            d)   are compiled for law enforcement purposes;
            e)   if disclosed could endanger the life or safety of any person;
            f)    are inter-agency or intra-agency materials excepting:
                        i.    statistical or factual tabulations or data, or;
                        ii.   final agency policy or determinations;
          g)   if disclosed, would jeopardize the Library’s capacity to guarantee the security of its                  information technology assets, such assets encompassing both electronic information                  systems and infrastructures.

8.    In accordance with the Library’s policy of Confidentiality of Library Records (see section 500-20),        no records which contain names or personally identifying details regarding the Library’s users        shall be disclosed except upon receipt of a subpoena, authorized by court order or where        otherwise required by statute.

9.    The Library will maintain:
            a)   a record of the final vote of each member in every agency proceeding in which the member                    votes;
            b) a record setting forth the name, title and salary of every officer or employee of the agency.

10.  Within five business days of the receipt of a written request for a record reasonably described, the        Library shall make such record available to the person requesting it, deny such request in writing        or furnish a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such request and a statement of the        approximate date, which shall be reasonable under the circumstances of the request, when such        request will be granted or denied. If the Library determines to grant a request in whole or in part,        and if circumstances prevent disclosure to the person requesting the record or records within        twenty business days from the date of the acknowledgement of the receipt of the request, the        Library shall state, in writing, both the reason for the inability to grant the request within twenty        business days and a date certain within a reasonable period, depending on the circumstances,        when the request will be granted in whole or in part. Upon payment of, or offer to pay, the fee        prescribed therefore, the Library shall provide a copy of such record or respond that it does not        have possession of such record or that such record cannot be found after diligent search. Nothing        in this Policy shall be construed to require the Library to prepare any record not possessed or        maintained except the records specified in Section 8 (eight) above.

11.  Any person denied access to a record may within thirty days appeal in writing such       denial to        the Great Neck Library Board of Trustees who shall within ten business     days after its next        regularly scheduled meeting fully explain in writing to the person requesting the record the        reasons for further denial, or provide access to the record sought.

12.  Nothing in this Policy shall require the disclosure of the home address of an officer or employee,        former officer or employee, or of a retiree of an employees' retirement system; nor shall anything        in this Policy require the disclosure of the name or home address of a beneficiary of a public        employees' retirement system or of an applicant for appointment to public employment.

FOIL application (fillable)