HomeMy Public PortalAboutLBT Minutes 2005 03/17McCall Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
17 March 2005
I. Coil to Order: 4:10 pm.
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Attendance: Anne Kontola, Ed Hershberger, Diane beChambeau,
Robyn Armstrong, Susie Reddick
III. Minutes: The February 17th minutes were read, changes were
made, and they were approved os amended.
I:V.
Staff Report: Meg reported to us about the Dio de los Ninos
event to be held on April 29th. A parade of elementary school
children will leave the school at about 3:15 pm and walk together to
the library for a celebration of music, pinatas, and Spanish
bilingual books. She con use our help with book distribution, crowd
control, etc.
We currently have about 100 new books awaiting labels ("New") for
our front display. They will be moved to the shelves after a month
or two, depending on popularity.
Most patrons have been respectful of our new rule allowing only
two books to be checked out at a time. Anne is working with a
Cascade resident who preferred the old system.
Anne is pleased to report that she made over 700 entries to our
automation system last week - great progress! She also mentioned
some upcoming building alterations, including furniture disposal,
cleaning, and moving her office into the smaller bock room.
Friends Report: Diane let us know there will be no Memorial Day
book sale this year. Also, it appears that the Festival of Trees will
move to the golf course clubhouse next season, tn addition, she let
us know that endowments ore performing well.
VI:.
Budget and Stats: The budget report was passed to Ed. At this
point, about 417o of the fiscal year has elapsed and 417o of the
budget has been spent. Anne mentioned a transportation over-
expenditure that the state will reimburse because the money was
spent in the pursuit of districting research.
VII. Old Business:
Library Ad: A few changes to 5usie's new od were recommended.
5he will update along with Anne's graphic and emoil a copy to P-obyn
who will toke it to Tom Grote to discuss possible sponsorships. We
still plan to run the od once o month, so we'll need twelve sponsors.
City Council: Anne has made and posted a list of council meetings
so that Board members can sign up to attend one at a time. Zn
October, the library will present a "state of the library" discussion
to the council.
Manuals: The procedures manual is almost done; one section has
been completed each week at staff meetings. The policy manual
sits nearly complete; Susie will finish the job with Anne's help in
~Tune.
Districting: City council meetings are coming up in bonnelly,
McCall, and Cascade. McCall's meeting is slated for March 24*h but
it appears that this could be a contentious meeting for other
reasons. We'll suggest that Christie move the McCall City Council
presentation to another night. Anne is drafting a detailed plan for
our potential district, including personnel and budget, all at
optimum levels. Once a district board is installed and an actual
budget defined, the levels from Anne's plan may come down.
Web Page: Ours is essentially nonexistent at this point. We
display some information on the City page such as phone number
and hours. Christie has written a great plug for the library that
we will submit to Dave. Anne has a digital camera that she'd like to
use to send photos of children's programs, etc. to our site. Anne
would love to have someone take over this project. Perhaps 5ua
Rost can work on it when she comes in for Meg this spring.
VIII. New Business;
No new business. Our assignment for next time is to review the
Strategic Plan.
IX. Adjournment: 5:20 pm
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