Shown here is the new Sonoma County Library Commission who assumed responsibility on March 1, 1975, for the recently reorganized countywide library system. Seated from left to right are Margaret Millner (retired CIA analyst), appointed from the Third Supervisorial District; Dr. Randolph Newman (retired SRJC president), appointed from the City of Santa Rosa; Esther Foster (member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club), from the Fifth Supervisorial District; Myron E. DeLong (Sonoma Valley High School teacher), First District. Standing from left to right, are Dorothy Bertucci (a former UC Berkeley and UCLA reference librarian), Vice Chairman, appointed by the City of Petaluma; John Howland Hicks (Cloverdale High School librarian), appointed from the Fourth District; and Peter Kassebaum (College of Marin anthropology instructor and Rohnert Park resident), Second Supervisorial District.

Today the Sonoma County Library is governed by an independent eleven-member Library Commission as specified in a revised Joint Powers Agreement.  The city councils of Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma, and Windsor, along with the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, each appoint a Library Commissioner.  The City of Santa Rosa and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors also jointly appoint one Library Commissioner.

Currently Healdsburg is not represented on the Commission and the City of Healdsburg is seeking applications from those interested in this volunteer position. 

For more information please go to http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=203