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THE PRESENT FORM · ROLLS AT MINUTES AND EXAMINATION STRENGTH
The board is seven trustees, each resident in the district at least two years, appointed for four-year terms by five different authorities — and the division of the appointments is the library's constitution in miniature. Under the current bylaws (Indiana Code 36-12-2-9), the New Prairie United School Corporation board appoints three; the St. Joseph County Council one; the St. Joseph County Commissioners one; the Town Council of New Carlisle one; and the Olive Township Trustee one. Four officers — president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer — are elected by ballot at the December annual meeting. The presidency, at the strength the state's examinations and the board's own minutes carry it, runs: Wendy Glon (2005); Tom Pietrzak (2006–2007); Steve Vojtko (2015 into 2016); Renee Millar (2016); Carol Hesch (2017 through 2019, her tenure spanning two examination periods and the December 2017 minutes that re-elected her); Tara White (2021 to February 7, 2022); and Casey Gumm (from February 8, 2022). The fullest single roll this section read whole is the board's own minutes of October 17, 2023: Casey Gumm, president (absent that night); Mindie Colanese, vice-president, in the chair; Terry Bailey, treasurer; Heather Vann, secretary (the same minutes' motion line spells her "Heather Van" — both forms print, as the record carries them); and members Kristen Madren, Jennifer Maure, and April Rowe, with Director Roanna Hooton and Assistant Director Amy Schrock attending. Even the board's meeting day has a course, and the carriers disagree in a way that prints rather than merges: the 2012 bylaws set the regular meeting on the third Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.; the bylaws as the library now publishes them set the third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.; and the Indiana State Library's 2026 directory carries the meeting as the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. — the directory, the freshest dated carrier, states the present form, and the Tuesdays stand behind it as the course. The board's own archive is public and deep: the library posts its minutes in school-year folders running 2010–2011 through 2024–2025, backfilled to a public drive in June 2025 — the fullest self-kept record of any institution in this town's build, and the settler for the member-level roll of the present board, which stands in the closing ledger as a named gap at November 2026 strength.
Principal sources: the library's bylaws (composition and appointing authorities, read whole, in the 2012 packet and as now published on the library's site); State Board of Accounts examination and audit reports, 2005–2006, 2017–2018, and 2021–2022 (presidents, treasurers, at the officials schedules); board minutes of January 20, 2015, February 16, 2016, and December 19, 2017 (rolls read whole); board minutes of October 17, 2023 (read whole); Indiana State Library, Public Library Directory 2026 (meeting day and time; entry updated July 21, 2025).