Board of directors

Rachele Selvig, Vice President

As a lawyer, wife, mother, and prior childcare provider and educator, Rachele has spent more than her fair share of time in libraries. She describes libraries as the fundamental backbone of a community and admires that libraries are all-inclusive places where people of all ages, backgrounds, economic statuses, political beliefs, and education levels can unite.

Since she and her family moved to Grants Pass in 2011, she has admired the growing support for our local library system. She is proud to be part of a community that holds libraries and knowledge dear to its heart.

Kelly Robinson

Kelly Robinson grew up in Georgia and earned a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from the Medical College of Georgia, followed by a Master of Science in Public Health from Brigham Young University. She worked as an occupational therapist specializing in adult neurological rehabilitation at Emory University Medical Center and Loma Linda University Medical Center. Additionally, she served as an adjunct professor at both Brigham Young University and Loma Linda University.

Kelly and her husband, Jon, have lived in Grants Pass for 21 years, where they raised their five daughters. She currently works as the office manager at Robinson Orthodontics.

An active community volunteer, Kelly is the chairman of the Josephine County AMPAC committee and the Grants Pass School District 7 Parent Advisory Committee. She is committed to ensuring stable funding for Josephine Community Library and maintaining accessible, safe facilities for patrons of all ages and abilities. A firm believer in the freedom of thought championed by public libraries, she values their role in fostering knowledge and open discourse.

Pat Fahey

Pat Fahey is a Grants Pass native and graduate of Grants Pass High School. Although he earned an accounting degree from Southern Oregon University, Pat refers to himself as a “garbage man by birth and by choice.” He’s the second generation in his family business, Southern Oregon Sanitation, a garbage company founded in 1948 and now serving more than 25,000 customers in Josephine, Jackson, and Douglas Counties. He retired in 2016, but retirement didn’t “take” for him, so later that year he purchased Sutherlin Sanitary Service, where he now works as general manager.

Pat has worked on behalf of his community for decades. He’s been a member of Grants Pass Rotary since 1987. He has served on the Grants Pass School Board finance committee, Three Rivers Community Hospital Foundation board, Josephine Community Libraries, Inc. board, and Josephine County budget committee. In nearly all of these, he has served in leadership positions. He currently sits on the boards of Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development, Inc. and Rogue Community College.

Gina Marie Agosta, President

Gina Marie Agosta was born and raised in Grants Pass. She graduated from the University of Portland with bachelor’s degrees in English and Organizational Communication. After graduating, Gina Marie returned home and began her career in the nonprofit field, serving as the executive director of Coalition for Kids for 10 years. Since 2017, she has worked at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center as a patient experience coordinator.

Gina Marie has been a member of the Rogue Gateway Rotary Club since 2009 and has served as club president and assistant governor for the four Rotary clubs of Josephine County. Gina Marie grew up practically living at the Grants Pass branch of the library and is proud to serve on the library district board.

Tina Gotchall

Tina has lived and worked in Grants Pass for 37 years as a small-business owner of Powderhorn Cafe. She has been involved in many local nonprofit organizations including Josephine Community Libraries, Inc., Rotary Club of Grants Pass, the Town Center Association, Barnstormers, and Mental Health Court.

She co-founded the nonprofit Heart to Heart to bring automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to every school in Grants Pass and helped to establish this as law for all schools in Oregon.

She is inspired by our community’s support of the library. As a board member, she will serve and adhere to the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment, and provide oversight of library policy. She believes Americans have the right to choose what they will and will not read for themselves and their children.