[LIBRARYDIR] public notice wording

[Jacquelyn Ray]

Hi Muggs~

     To offer a little bit of hope, at my last college (in another state) we did a book sale couple with a craft sale/bake sale with contributions from both college staff and a couple local folks who paid a small booth fee/donation.  It was a lot of work but also  actually pretty awesome.  We used the funds to create a scholarship.

Anyhoo, I am not a lawyer but I think you have

You've highlighted the exact spot:

 In reference to the RCW unless a school district has requested this type of notice, you do NOT have to notify them.

 shall, prior to other disposal thereof, serve notice in writing in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district and to any public school district or private school in Washington state annually requesting such a notice,

I honestly would doubt if they have but maybe asking your Foundation?

If not, I was suggest perhaps the following statement for your ad:

Notice: Skagit College Library has deaccessioned a small collection of print material.  Per RCW 28A.335.180,  all public and private K-12 school districts in Skagit and Island counties have first right to free access these materials within 30 days of this published notice.  School districts are responsible for contacting (xxxxxx) and arranging pickup.  A public sale will be held with any remaining materials following this 30 day notification period.

All my best,
Jacquelyn

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Hello,



We are going to have a relatively small book sale – mainly donated items and discarded fiction paperbacks.  Most items were not purchased with college funds.  I found an email from 2015 that laws and policies that stated we have to publish a notice in the school district newspaper letting public schools in the district know we are selling such.



I am wondering if anybody has had a sale in the past couple years and if so, is there some boilerplate language regarding the notice that needs to be placed.    (It is a pain to have to do this, when really no other library is going to be interested in this stuff…)

But, we will do what we must.



Thanks!



Margret Mills (Muggs)

Department Chair, Library

Skagit Valley College



PS:  This is language from the 2015 email.



Most importantly, there is a  less well-known law in the K-12 code that picks up the higher education institutions as “other state agencies concerned with education.”  It requires certain procedures take place prior to disposing of books or other materials. It says, in pertinent part,



RCW 28A.335.180.  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, school districts, educational service districts, or any other state or local governmental agency concerned with education, when declaring texts and other books, equipment, materials or relocatable facilities as surplus, shall, prior to other disposal thereof, serve notice in writing in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district and to any public school district or private school in Washington state annually requesting such a notice, that the same is available for sale, rent, or lease to public school districts or approved private schools, at depreciated cost or fair market value, whichever is greater . . .  .  Such districts or agencies shall not otherwise sell, rent or lease such surplus property to any person, firm, organization, or nongovernmental agency for at least thirty days following publication of notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district.


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