HomeMy Public PortalAbout2015.04.23 Annual Report to CouncilAnnual Report to McCall City Council for 2014
McCall Public Library Board of Trustees
April 23, 2015
This has been a busy year for the McCall Library Board. Our year started with
planning for Anne's retirement. After Anne decided on her timeline the board
then worked backwards to plan our timeline to ensure we would have a new di-
rector hired by October, 2014.
In June, Anne Kantola arranged for the Board to participate in a day seminar pre-
sented by Kevin Tomlinson from the Idaho Commission for Libraries. The library
board is an interesting entity. Although our funding is provided by the City of
McCaII we are governed by a set of state laws. This seminar reinforced our role
in reviewing library goals and determining library policy. The Board learned that
according to the Idaho Library Laws, the Board was responsible for overseeing
all expenses, and signing off on the Warrant Register. We also needed to autho-
rize vacation, sick leave and evaluations of the Library Director. Previously,
these tasks had been taken care of by the City Manager, now the Board would
need to be more directly involved in these tasks.
As the summer progressed we were joined by our new City Council Liaison Bob
Giles. Bob along with Gene and Tracy from Human Resources were invaluable
in guiding us through the process of hiring a new Library Director. This process
included a national search, collecting and rating many applications, designing in-
terview questions, interviewing, rating applicants and making the final decision.
The Board unanimously chose Meg and it's been wonderful.
In support of our new Director the board has been more directly involved with the
recent decisions on library staffing. Meg has hired a new full-time Program Li-
brarian. She is also restructuring her staffing and hiring two Clerk
positions with the goal of increasing library services to the community.
The library board continues to work from the Strategic Plan to allow the library to
realize its potential as a key component of the community. We have met the
goals set to improve the present library facility and increase programming to bet-
ter serve the needs of the patrons. We have a digital check-out system, a user
friendly website, more press coverage of programs and expanded cultural
events. Our policy manual which was reviewed and updated during 2014 contin-
ues to be a useful reference material.
Since we have met many of the goals from the current Strategic Plan drafted in
2008, our work for the 2015-2016 year will include revising and update the exist-
ing plan to reflect our vision for the next five years.
In conclusion, this year we have protected the high quality of service that the li-
brary provides to our community by hiring a great new director. With our new di-
rector in place the board will continue to work on Goal #5 from our Strategic Plan.
This goal is to plan and construct a new library consistent with the City of McCall
Campus Plan, reflecting the present and future needs of the community.
Submitted by the Library Board
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Jacki Rubin, Chair
Lynn Lewinski, Secretary
Ed Hershberger, Treasurer
Lola Elliot
Sean Gould