This organization shall be known as West Osceola Friends of the Library, Inc.

The purpose of West Osceola Friends of the Library shall be to obtain a permanent, full-service branch of the Osceola County Public Library System, to be located within the residential community of Celebration, Florida. Additionally, the purpose of West Osceola Friends of the Library shall be to maintain an association of volunteers and persons interested in the library, to focus public attention on the library, to stimulate the use of the library’s resources; to receive and encourage gifts, endowments and bequests to the library; to support and cooperate with the library in developing library services and facilities for the community; to establish, develop and operate a volunteer center for the benefit of West Osceola County; and to support the freedom to read as expressed in the American Library Association Bill of Rights.

Membership in the organization shall be open to all individuals, organizations and

This Constitution shall be supplemented and implemented by the By-Laws.

A Board of Directors shall govern West Osceola Friends of the Library. They are

The officers of the organization shall be a president, a vice president, a secretary, a

The Directors shall have the power to fill vacancies on the Board by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Board.

The Directors shall have the power to amend, repeal, or adopt the Constitution or By- Laws at any regular or special meeting of the Board, by a two-thirds vote of the directors.

A. Monies may be received from membership, endowments, projects, gifts, and

B. The Board shall approve all expenditures from these funds.

C. No funds of West Osceola Friends of the Library shall be used for the benefit of,

D. West Osceola Friends of the Library shall not participate or otherwise intervene in

In the event of dissolution of West Osceola Friends of the Library, all real and personal property of West Osceola Friends of the Library, after paying or making provisions for the payment of all liabilities and obligations, shall be conveyed, transferred and paid over to such charitable corporations or purposes in such shares, amounts and proportions as the Directors shall determine as being most in furtherance of West Osceola Friends of the Library’s purposes. In no event shall any of the assets of West Osceola Friends of the Library inure to the individual benefit of any Director, officer, member or any other private individual.