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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20100616lbmMinutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting June 16, 2010 10:00 am. The meeting was called to order at 10:06 A.M. In attendance: Ed Hershberger, Jackie Rubin, Nancy Butler, Anne Kantola. Absent: Jamie Bell and Lynn Lewinski. Ed moved to accept the Minutes for May, 2010 as corrected. Jackie seconded. Motion passed. Director's Report: Not many changes. May budget not yet available. We are getting 0.1853% on our investments which is better than it was last month. The Idaho Room is getting more use. Friend's Report: Friends discussed cleaning the Pump House next week and buying a new vacuum. Will be meeting in July to start working on the Festival of Trees. Old Business: Inventory: The inventory is almost finished. It was started in September, 2009. Juvenile non-fiction is still to be entered. Should be finished in two more months and then will be uploaded to OCLC's data base. Carpet & Shelving: Both the carpet and shelving have arrived. The carpet is being stored by the merchant. All is paid for except labor. Due to the busy summer reading program, it was felt that the carpet and shelving should be installed in the fall. By then the LOT money may have come and then perhaps the east wall shelving could be purchased and installed at the same time as everything else. Moved by Ed, seconded by Jackie, that we install carpet and shelving in the early fall. LOT has recommended only $4,000 for the library for next year. Eames Collection: The Eames Collection has been added to the Inventory. Almost 1,000 books, mostly American history. The Historical Society would like to have some of them but they have no shelving available. Therefore, discussions are continuing. New Business: City and State Code: A man wearing a firearm regularly comes to the library. This has caused some alarm. The library has no firearms policy. The state law says that a person can carry a gun in plain sight and no other law can supercede this law. However, no one is allowed to brandish a weapon. If this were to happen, staff has been instructed to immediately call the police and to do nothing confrontational themselves. The library cannot write a firearms policy that will contradict the state law. Also, an organization known as ADF (Alliance Defense Fund) is threatening to sue any library that does not let religious groups meet on their premises. The library has a policy relating to this issue. According to current library policies and procedures concerning use of the library by outside groups, the librarian is the arbiter. Generally, the library space is for use by public and non -partisan groups, not by "for profit" or partisan groups. Should the ADF group file any papers or specifically name the McCall Public Library in this matter, the librarian was advised to notify the City Attorney, and to not respond directly. Library Hours: The library's hours have been changed for summer on a trial basis. Open one extra hour on Saturdays (10 am-4pm) which is not new. On Thursdays, the library is now open until 8 pm which is two extra hours. This is new. Due to staff schedule flexibility, no extra money will be spent. This trial is an attempt to provide more service to the public without the expenditure of additional funds. Building Plans: Anne is to meet with the City regarding this matter. After meeting with the City, it is hoped that steps will be taken to renew the earlier efforts to plan for a new library, in conjunction with a new City campus, including forming of an appropriate citizens group to address the program. It is desired that the library be well represented within any such citizens group. It is hoped that the libraries architectural budget can be a help in starting this process. The meeting was adjourned at 11;10 A.M. \ ›-,,-,,&, Nancy Butler, Chair 7-c-10 Date