[Publib] Food for fines revisited

[Whitewright Library]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Henriksen, Phalbe
<phenriksen at alexandercountync.gov> wrote:

> Call me a curmudgeon, but I have never, ever seen any sort of opinion or
> decision by boards of any kind, whether or not it is even legal to wipe off
> a fine, which is money owed to a government unit, for a donation that is
> going to a non-profit service, i.e., not the said government.

Our guidelines state that fines can be waived or adjusted at the
discretion of staff members.

However, our library is semi-independent, with our salaries and
utilities paid by the City and everything else paid for by a separate
account controlled by the library. We are ultimately accountable to
the City and are audited as a separate section (so is the volunteer
fire department), but none of our fine money goes into the City
coffers in the first place.

Chris Ely