{"id":7,"date":"2011-07-26T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/207.210.128.61\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:23:01","slug":"board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/?page_id=7#3\">Village Improvement Association Mission Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/?page_id=244\">Village Improvement Association Board Minutes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Library Board<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:viaboard@westhavenlibrary.org\">\u00a0Suggestions\/Comments to the Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 15-member Village Improvement Association (founded in 1906) functions as the library&#8217;s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>The VIA meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, September through June.<br \/>\n<a name=\"2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Village Improvement Association Board Members<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">West Haven Public Library<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>President-\u00a0 Leonard Adams<br \/>\nVice President- Michelle Bernardi<br \/>\nTreasurer- Elaine Khu<br \/>\nRecording Secretary- Mary Malenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Heffernan<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pat Donnelly<br \/>\nJoseph Fortino<br \/>\nJohn Galvin<br \/>\nMackii McMillan<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gwen Haley<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ruby Melton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Russ Adlrich<br \/>\nWilliam Lang<br \/>\nMary Malenda<br \/>\nAlan Olenick<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h2>Mission Statement<\/h2>\n<h3>Vision- Village Improvement Association:<\/h3>\n<p>The Village Improvement Association is a non-political organization that plays a critical role in guiding the West Haven Public Library in providing unlimited access to opportunities and resources for self-improvement, cultural awareness, and pure enjoyment for patrons.<\/p>\n<h3>Mission- Village Improvement Association:<\/h3>\n<p>The mission of the Village Improvement Association is to collaborate with the library director to maximize use of resources, set policies to guide library operations, secure funding to carry out library programs, and to maintain the facilities and bookmobile so the West Haven Public Library can provide people of all ages free, public access, and quality direction and guidance to books, media, and cultural events in a comfortable, user-friendly, environment that meets the informational, educational, and life-long learning interests of the entire community.<\/p>\n<p id=\"print-page-link\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/?page_id=7&amp;print=1\">Print <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Village Improvement Association Mission Statement Village Improvement Association Board Minutes Library Board \u00a0Suggestions\/Comments to the Board The 15-member Village Improvement Association (founded in 1906) functions as the library&#8217;s governing body. The VIA meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, September through June. Village Improvement Association Board Members West Haven Public Library President-\u00a0 Leonard Adams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1878,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/8172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhavenlibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}