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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2009Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Dec. 9, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order 2) Attendance: 3) Minutes 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Remodel b) Lighting c) Copy machine 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : 8) Building plans: Timeline Next steps 9) Adjournment : 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for Jan, 20, 2010. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Dec. 9, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. Call to order : 4:15 P. M. Attendance : Nancy Butler, Jamie Bell, Lynn Lewinski, Ed Hershberger, Jacki Rubin, Anne Kantola, and Susie Reddick. Minutes : All minutes for August, September, and October have been read and approved. Director's Report : Budget and Stats : Not available yet. To be reviewed at the next meeting. Staff : Staff doing well, programming fine, and remodel progressing nicely. Friends Report : Festival of Trees had low bids, no surprise due to economy, but they still managed to make $4500. Event well accepted, as always. Old Business : Remodel: The books have been moved and the shelves removed. The carpet has been taken out and the new one is being installed. Tuck Miller and his volunteers worked extremely hard. Nancy proposed that the carpet removers be given a reward, and that a thank you be put in the paper, naming the adults and kids that helped. Lighting: The lighting has been completed and seems to be a great success. Very good light. The library will reopen on Monday. Copy machine: A new lease with a government contract has been signed for a color copier that also scans and prints. It should be delivered in a few weeks. New Business : Policy Manual : The Board agrees that the existing policy manual should be enforced. There is no food, drink or pets allowed in the library. Unattended children OD) under 6 will have their parents called. There was some discussion of the library being -used as a babysitting location. Building plans : Timeline: The City Council will discuss the option to start a City Campus plan at the second council meeting in January. Next steps: After discussion, Lynn made a motion which Ed seconded, to present the following to the City Council. "We, the Library Board, would like to participate in the formation and development of a steering committee to proceed with studying, creating and implementing a City Campus which would include a new library. We feel there is a great need to have new facilities that will enhance the future community of McCall." It was also agreed that Anne speak to the Mayor and Lindley about our hopes to have representatives of the library, City Hall and the Police Department appointed to this committee, along with other members of the community. We have looked into the success of several other local building projects and see that successful planning includes many diverse groups in the community. This group should include, but not limited to: city staff, board members, council members, financial support, building knowledge, and special interest groups such as the hospital, schools, seniors, teens, young families and businesses. Adjournment :5:30 Our next meeting is scheduled for Jan. 20, 2010. It was decided to have the meeting at 10:00 A. M. instead of 4:00 from now on. a,tir� NancC� y Bdt{ar, Chair —ao —lo Date Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting rVovambtug, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. There was no November meeting, but a meeting early in December for both Nov. & Dec. The next meeting will be in January. Our next meeting is scheduled for Dec 9, 2009. Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Oct. 21, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance : 3) Minutes 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and 5tats : b) staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business: a) Carpet: b) LOT $ c) Lighting 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : b) Ride2Read 8) Building plans: Timeline Next steps 9) Adjournment : 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 18, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Oct. 21, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. Call to order : 4:05 Attendance : Lynn Lewinski, Ed Hershberger, Jackie Rubin, Anne Kantola. Minutes : Not transcribed yet, will present at next meeting. Director's Report : Budget and 5tats : Great numbers to review Staff : Well and doing fine Friend's Report : Nancy not in attendance. Old Business : Discussion of completing our refurbishment over time. Carpet : We will do the carpet after the lighting project is completed. LOT $ : We received $10,800 in LOT monies intended to use for new shelving. Lighting : McCall City Environmental Committee has obtained funding in conjunction with Idaho Power to redo and revamp the building's lights. This project will start Nov. 9Th The cost to us will be approximately $6,000 up -front. Anne has approximately $2,000 in the building repair fund, and Idaho Power will pay us back about $2500, so we need to find $1500 from the budget. This project will save on energy costs as well as serving as a pilot program for the community. Ed moved that we find the monies to finance this project within our library budget, Jackie seconded, voted aye and approved. New Business : Policy Manual : Tabled. Ride2Read : Didn't do this year, but will next year. Will continue with the scholarship program with donation form on their website. Building plans : Timeline : Wait until the new council is voted in, and then proceed with plans and funding. Next steps : Continuing discussion, bring up at next meeting. Lynn brought notes from 2 people who worked on the H5 building project. Adjournment :4:55 Our next meeting is scheduled for Dec. 9, 2009. Nancy Butler, C a r Date Special Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Sept. 23, 2009 The Board of Trustees will meet with a representative of the Idaho Commission for Libraries at 3:00 to discuss ideas and action plans for building a new library. Our next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 21, 2009, at 4:00. Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Sept. 16, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance: 3) Minutes 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business: a) Carpet: b) LOT $ c) CIS - Career Information Services d) Lighting 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : b) Friends 8) Building plans: Comments to Council on 24th Meeting with Erin on 23`d Timeline Next steps 9) Adjournment : 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 21, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Sept. 16, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. Call to order : 4:03 pm Attendance : Jamie Bell, Lynn Lewinski, Jacki Rubin, Nancy Butler and Anne Kantola Minutes : to be reviewed Director's Report : Budget and Stats : to be reviewed a) Staff : The Staff is well and happy after a very busy summer. The outside letters on the building, from the Summer Reading Program, look great. Everyone is getting ready for the HUGE World Day Cultural event, working with the Folklore Society and the Progressive Club. Should be a wonderful . 2) Friend's Report : The Friends enjoyed the best summer ever, with help from EBay sales. Old Business: a) Carpet: Proceeding with planning. b) LOT $: Monies available at an unknown future date. c) CIS - Career Information Services: Training is in progress. This program will be a great asset for the Library to offer the community. This is a free service for national information for one year, with Idaho information to continue free indefinitely. d) Lighting: The McCall Environmental Committee and Idaho Power are changing the lighting and the energy savings should be great. New Business : a) Policy Manual : Ongoing b) Friends: The Library and Board will send a chocolate cake to the Friends for Library Friends Week. 2) Building plans : Building plans: Comments to Council on 24'h. cancelled Meeting with Erin on 23rd. Workshop sponsored by the State Idaho Library Commission should be very informative. Timeline : Still working for Council report. Next steps Adjournment : 4.35 Our next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 21, 2009. k Nancy Butler, hair I a.-R -oaf Date Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Aug. 19, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance : 3) Minutes 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: b) LOT $ c) Budget : 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : b) CIS - Career Information Services 8) Building plans: Timeline Next steps 9) Adjournment : 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 17, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Aug. 19, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. Call to order : 4:13 Attendance : Jackie Rubin, Ed Hershberger, Jamie Bell, Anne Kantola Minutes : Of June 17 approved as read. Director's Report : Budget and Stats : Budget is well within limits, Savings dropped, as to be expected. Staff : Cassandra resigned. We will rehire Zoya who worked here before. Meg will go up to 24 hours on Oct. 1. Friend's Report : Preparing for the Festival of Trees. Business is good! Old Business : Carpet: Here is storage waiting for the LOT money to come. Hope to install West side of library, Idaho Room and office in Sept. LOT: When and how much is not known at this time. Still waiting. $10,800 promised, need $6000 to even move on the shelves. Budget: Ready to go to council next week. No changes except Meg's hours. Don't anticipate any issues. New Business : Policy Manual : Still not moved on. CIS - Career Information Services : One year free service, access available now. Library will strongly support this. Building plans : Start to work on timeline. Council Meeting about the Campus Plan on Sept. 10. Jamie will give a pitch from the library board. The remainder of the meeting was used to watch a PowerPoint of our trip to libraries in Idaho City, Garden City, and Boise. Adjournment : 5:40 Our next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 17, 2009. et l 3 Nancy Butler, C ai bate Special Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Aug. 12, 2009 Field Trip The Board of Trustees will travel to 3 Boise Area libraries on Wed., Aug. 12, to obtain ideas and information for building a new library facility. Our next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 19, 2009, at 4:00. Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting July , 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. There was no library board meeting in July. Our next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 19, 2009. Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting June 17, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance 3) Minutes 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: b) LOT $ c) Budget : 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : b) CIS - Career Information Services c) Open Meeting Law d) McCall Special Events e) Auction 8) Building plans: Comments on Jerry's report Next step • 9) Adjournment : 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for July 15, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting June 17, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order :4:08 - Additions to agenda approved before meeting started. 2) Attendance : Ed Hershberger, Anne Kantola, Nancy Butler, Jacki Rubin, and Jamie Bell. 3) Minutes : Minutes of May 20 approved as read. 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stets : Budget figures not available yet. All reports need to be sent in Windows 2003 format so they can be read. b) Staff : All doing fine; still filling in for each other when there are vacations. Gay is a great help with filling in for absences. 5) Friend's Report : Friends bookstore is doing very good business lately; probably economy and weather. They also have the lowest stock of books available for sale that they have ever had. They are doing some publicity to get more books donated. 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: Should be here within a couple of weeks. There will be a "carpet ripping" party when we get ready to lay the carpet. b) LOT $: Got $8,500 for the shelving in the children's section, and a tentative $6,500 for the rest of the carpet if enough revenue is generated in fiscal'10. c) Budget : Very nearly balanced, only about $30,000 out. Will be turned in balanced on June 23`d. Details of a appropriated fund request of $10,000 and a carry forward of $10,800 from this year's LOT $ were discussed. Requesting a new copy machine that faxes and scans. 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : None b) CIS - Career Information Services: A new computer on-line program for job seekers. It is very user friendly and will be supplied free from the Job Service until Oct. of 2010. c) Open Meeting Law; There have been some changes in Open Meeting Law that we need to be aware of. A handout of the basic rules (supplied by the Idaho Commission for Libraries) was given out, and there was an invitation to attend a web conference on the changes to be given in Legion Hall at 3:00 on June 30. d) McCall Special Events; Dedication of the Sheep Bridge on July 3. It will become the Bill Keating Memorial Bridge. Also, there is a dedication of the new Legacy Park, possibly on June 28th. e) Auction: We made a total of $238 at the auction and sold the shelving privately to the Donnelly Library for $100. Total take $338. 8) Building plans: Comments on Jerry's report : Anne will meet with Lindley and Jerry on Friday, and will begin to discuss a shurette form of planning committee. Next steps will be discussed later. A nice discussion followed about where we were headed next. It was decided that we would not start to develop a committee just yet, but would like to tour several area libraries for planning, building and project related ideas. Anne will arrange a tour of Boise area libraries in August. 9) Adjournment : 5:15 10) Our next meeting is scheduled for July 15, 2009. We will not have a July meeting, but will meet on August 19, after the field trip. f Nancy B tl r, Chair Date ?-/9-09 -4: Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting May 20, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance: 3) Minutes : 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stets : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: b) Council report: c) LOT $ 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : b) Budget : 8) Building plans: 9) Adjournment : Our next meeting is scheduled for June 17, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting May 20, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 4 pm 2) Attendance : Ed Hershberger, Lynn Lewinski, Anne Kantola, Nancy Butler, Jacki Rubin, and Jamie Bell. 3) Minutes : Approved as written. 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : Interest rates are down, but we are still fine. b) Staff : Everyone is well and getting ready for the summer programs. The Bowes Company has donated paint for the letter project of the Jr. Reader Summer program. There is already a lot of interest shown. Summer is traditionally busy. Lynn finished painting the interior accent walls, with a work -in -kind invoice given to be used for future grant monies. 5) Friend's Report : E-sales continue to generate income. The Friends are excited to plan for carpet removal. 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: The Board looked over the carpet samples staff chose. Motion was made, second and passed to proceed with ordering and replacing the carpet. The total bill is $5830.00. The Friends have given us an initial check of $3000.00 to begin. Exciting! b) Council report: The Board felt good about the presentation to City Council and hopes it was well accepted. c) LOT $ The new monies requested are for shelving, itemized and an additional amount for carpeting the rest of the library. 7) New Business : a) Policy Manual : Editing is almost complete on the meeting room policy. b) Budget : The first draft is finished. Anne will learn more as this progresses, making allowances in the budget. 8) Building plans: A Council planning meeting will be this coming Thursday, at 5:30 pm. The Library Board wants to attend. Motion made and carried to show support for creating the City Campus. 9) Adjournment : 5pm Our next meeting is scheduled for June 17, 2009. CLA Nancy Butler, Chair Date Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting April 8, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 2) Attendance : 3) Minutes : 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and 5tats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: b) Council report: c) New Board member: d) Letter from Jill: 7) New Business : a) LOT $: b) Letter from Lynda Johnson: c) Policy Manual: 8) Building plans: 9) Adjournment : Our next meeting is scheduled for May 20, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting April 8, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. Call to order : 4:15 pm Attendance : Jamie Bell, Anne Kantola, Nancy Butler, Ed Hershberger and Lynn Lewinski. Minutes: Approved as presented. Director's Report : Budget and Stats : All reports are fine. Staff : There are no problems with programs but some concerns for staffing schedules. Exciting new summer programs are being planned. Lynn is helping with the Junior Reader age; which will include making giant letters for the building that spell out LIBRARY. Paint will be donated by Bowes Painting. Friend's Report : The Friends are very enthusiastic about having a carpet removal party. Their support is so wonderful. Trial EBay sales for books are encouraging and will be shared with us. Old Business: Carpet: We will contact the business whose quote fell within the Friends gift fund. Ed moved with a second from Jamie to have Lynn and Anne finalize details. Council report: What a great power point for the Council meeting on April 23rd. Such a difference from our first, partly due to so many added programs and improvements. New Board member: We all feel a need to interview applicants in order to decide, hoping to have this settled by next month's meeting. Letter from Jill: Quite a nice response and thank you for our gift. New Business : LOT $: Disappointing that there will be a 10% decrease, but we are very happy for the opportunity available. Letter from Lynda Johnson: The author of "Sharlie" sent us a great letter with additional books and posters as well as a donation of $200. Policy Manual: No report Building plans: This subject is not getting needed attention and will have to be addressed . Perhaps there should be a committee for the City Civic Campus? Adjournment: 5:25 pm Our next meeting is scheduled for May 20, 2009. 1 \�Jv� Nancy Butler, Chaim � Date Agenda McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting March 11, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order 2) Attendance; 3) Minutes: 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : b) Staff : 5) Friend's Report : 6) Old Business : a) Carpet: b) Council report: c) New Board member: 7) New Business : a) Gift and letter for Jill b) Energy Seal Report 8) Building plans: 9) Adjournment : Our next meeting is scheduled for April 15, 2009. Minutes McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting March 11, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. 1) Call to order : 4:00 2) Attendance : Nancy Butler, Ed Hershberger, Lynn Lewinski, Jamie Bell, Anne Kantola 3) Minutes : Accepted with corrections. 4) Director's Report : a) Budget and Stats : To be reviewed by Ed with next month's report. b) Staff : Doing fine. 5) Friend's Report : Trying to figure out why the drop in sales. Perhaps they can contact other local libraries for discussion. 6) Old Business : a) Carpet : The board voted to go ahead with carpet in the open front area from the funds the Friends gave us. After the initial area is done, we will concentrate on more fund raising to finish this project. b) Council report : Nancy will compile the updates for this presentation. c) New Board member : We reviewed the applicant information and hope to make our choice at the next meeting. Decided to run our own ad at least once. 7) New Business : a) Gift and letter for Jill : Nice card and gift from all of us for her time and support. Also letters from Anne and from the City Council. b) Energy Seal report : Very interesting report on the energy loss in this building for us to review. Retain the information for help in creating energy efficiency in the new building. 8) Building plans : Will become a separate item at the end of each meeting. We will review items as we have time at each meeting, making notes on recommendations and references. Each of us will make suggestions for professionals to visit with information for our planning process. 9) Adjournment : 5:05 P. M. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 8, 2009. Nancy Bu R'r, Chair — q —0 Date McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Agenda Feb. 18, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 PM I. Call to Order: II. Attendance: III. Minutes: IV. Director's Report : a. Budget and Mats b. Staff V. Friends report: VI. Old Business a. Finance Information b. Scholarship c. Carpet d. Council report VII. New Business: a. Resignation VIII. Adjournment: Our next meeting will be Mar.}`", 2009. III McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Feb. 18, 200/6T Library Conference Room, 4:00 P. M. I. Call to Order: 4 P. M. II. Attendance: Ed Hershberger, Jamie Bell, Nancy Butler, Anne Kantola and Lynn Lewinski. III. Minutes: Approved as corrected. IV. Director's Report : a. Budget and Stats : Reviewed and dissussed. b. Staff : Has been hard to keep a full staff scheduled due to illness. V. Friends report: The Friends have gifted the Library $5500.00! This is to be used for the purchase and installation of new carpet. We are 50 excited! This is a wonderful help to our project of upgrading the building. The Friends have found a great outlet for book resale and will share this information . VI. Old Business: a. Finance information: We have decided to leave the monies in question where they are at this time, following with caution, prudence and safety in our future decision making. b. Scholarship : The Ride -to -Read Program has it current participants, all but two are families with children. One is working on her masters degree. c. Carpet : The costs appear to be approximately $12,000.00. Even with the Friends kind donation, our prior donor may not cover the costs in full. Lynn will investigate grants and alternatives. d. Council report : Nancy has agreed to update this year's report. " VII. New Business: a. Resignation : Jill Meyer has asked to step down from her position on The Library Board for personal reasons. We voted to accept this resignation with regret. Ed nominated Nancy Butler as chairperson for the remainder of the year. This motion was seconded and passed unanimously. Elections for a new Chair will be in October. Nancy Butler will accept the position of Chairperson and continue on the board for the five year term terminating in October of 2013. b. Note to add new building plans to our future agendas. VIII. Adjournment: 5:15 pm. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, March lath, 2009. \N CQ�, 3 13 -�1 Nancy BChair bate McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Agenda Jan. 21, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 PM I. Call to Order: II. Attendance: III. Minutes: IV. Director's Report : a. Budget and Stats b. Staff V. Friends report: VI. Old Business a. Finance Information b. Scholarship c. Carpet VII. New Business: a. Annual report b. Wal-Mart grant c. State Report d. Evaluation of Anne VIII. Adjournment: Our next meeting will be Feb. 18th, zoo/A McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Minutes Jan. 21, 2009 Library Conference Room, 4:00 PM I. Call to Order 4:10 p.m. II. Attendance: Anne Kantola, Ed Hershberger, Nancy Butler, and Jamie Bell. III. Minutes: Accepted with corrections. IV. Director's Report : a. Budget and Stats : Reviewed and discussed. b. Staff: Nothing to report, except that staff is functioning well. V. Friends report: Festival of Trees went very well. The Friends will be working with the Library staff to host a book sale during the week of Winter Carnival. VI. Old Business a. Finance Information: Anne will attend a meeting with the City Manager, Finance Manager, and Ed Hershberger to discuss the Tobias Fund further; Ed is meeting with US Bank's investment branch. Ed requested more time to review legal documents in greater depth. b. Scholarship: The Ride-2-Read library card scholarship program has been operating for two weeks. Seven families have received cards through the program. In all, twenty are available. VII. New Business: a. Annual report: Our next annual report is to be presented at the second meeting in April. b. Wal-Mart grant: This is a mini -grant to strengthen public library youth services. The McCall Public Library has applied for funds to shuttle McCall Elementary students on fieldtrips to the library and to provide them with family library cards. c. State Report : Anne will have this report completed on schedule. d. Evaluation of Anne: The Board members present read and responded to the City's evaluation form, which asked for return by January 24th, 2009. VIII. Adjournment: 5:18 p.m. Our next meeting will be Feb. 18th, 2009. 1- /P-2ao f Jill Meyer, Ch it Date