Proposed policy changes by the Library Advisory Board for the new Homer Public Library hit a snag at Monday’s council meeting as they failed to receive the four votes needed for approval.

The changes likely will come before the council again, however, during its next meeting July 24.

Council member Matt Shadle called for reconsideration of the resolution, and Mayor James Hornaday has called for a work session on the policies before the next council meeting.

Most of the changes are minor, but sticking points related to the library director’s authority to accept donations and gifts and a new section on the library’s space use policy gave two of the five council members present pause.

Council members Shadle and Doug Stark voted to postpone the resolution until the next meeting. When that failed, they voted against the resolution, effectively delaying it until it is brought to the table again.

Stark called the 11-page rewrite “massive,” while Library Advisory Board chair Nancy Lord said “It’s absolutely straightforward.”

The changes revise the library user conduct, gifts and donations and display and exhibit policies to make them fall in line with the new, larger building, Lord said.

“None of it is radical or very different,” she said. “We just have to have stuff in place before (the library opens.)”

The new space use policy would set guidelines for use during and after library hours, as well as set a fee schedule for private use.

Private meetings or events may be held at the library during closed hours by reservation and at $35 per hour for the conference room, $40 per hour for the lounge and $40 per hour for the children’s room under the proposed policy.

The complete list of proposed changes can be found at the council Web site at: clerk.ci.homer.ak.us/council.htm.

In other news the council:

• Awarded the rewrite of the city’s disaster plan to Nuka Research and Planning Group of Seldovia for $15,950;
• Accepted the renewal of the fiscal year 2007 jail service contract with the state of Alaska.
• Awarded AA Fence of Anchorage the contract for the Jack Gist Softball Fields fencing and backstop installation in the amount of $69,888;
• Vacated 56 feet of a 66 foot section line easement in the proposed Quiet Creek Park;
• Asked the Economic Development Commission to continue its project looking into a second fishing lagoon in the vicinity of Mariner Park;
• Accepted the donation of two parcels of land near the Jack Gist Softball Fields for public use;
• Appropriated $135,500 of Homer Accelerated Water and Sewer Program funds for the installation of the Paintbrush Street booster station.
• Amended the Homer City Hall fee schedule.
• Requested that federal and state governments provide an adequate level of oil spill prevention and response for Kachemak Bay.
• Raised the ambulance fee 10 percent and the mileage rate to $7.50 per mile.
• Expressed interest with the potential acquisition of the City Hall building being purchased or leased by the University of Alaska.