Pardeeville Library Looks for New Director

Link to November 17 Portage Daily Register article.

Excerpt: The Angie Williams Cox Library in Pardeeville again is looking for a library director - prompting members of the Pardeeville Village Board on Tuesday to revisit the village's requirement that employees must live within 15 miles of Pardeeville.

The requirement applies to all village employees, but an exception was granted in February 2009 for Gary Yurgil, who had been hired in October 2008 as the library director, and who lives on Madison's west side, about 37 miles from Pardeeville.

Yurgil said at the time that he needed to keep his Madison residency because his spouse needed to be near her job.

On Oct. 15, Yurgil left his job, by what library board member Barry Pufahl describes as a mutual decision between Yurgil and the board. Pufahl, who also is a village trustee, said the residency issue had nothing to do with Yurgil's departure.

Library board members say they hope to start interviewing candidates for Yurgil's successor in mid-January and have that successor on the job by April.