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Minutes of June 2014 meeting
The Hopkinton Board of Library Trustees meets at the Town Hall on June 26, 2014.
The meeting was called to order at approximately 8:00 p.m. Jon Belger, Mike
McNamara, Stanley Pulnick, June Harris, Susan Porter and Library Director, Rownak
Hussain were all present.
John Belger, acting Chairperson, began the meeting with a discussion as to who how
to best reorganize the Board as he would be leaving. A discussion took place
regarding, who among the current Board. would be interested in the various open
positions. It was decided by a unanimous vote of the Board that Susan Porter and
Stanley Pulnik would co chair, June Harris would stay on as secretary and that the
Board would decide at a later date how to fill the remaining positions.
There was also a brief discussion as to role of the co chairs. Ms. Porter and Mr.
McNamara agreed to continue to act as liaisons to the Foundation.
The discussion then turned to Ms. Hussain, Library Director, who filled the Board in
on the process of working with Mr. Daltorio for purposes of making facility requests.
She described the form on line she must complete and various requests which were
recently made to maintain the existing facility.
The discussion then turned to an update on current efforts the Public Building
Committee with regard to the grant awarded to the Town and construction of the
new facility. It was mentioned that in July that Rose Mary Waltos of the
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissions would be available to update the
Permanent Building Committee on the process of the grant. According to the most
recent update the present Goals of the Permanent Building Committee are to have an
architect and an owner’s project manager on board by the end of August 2014.
The Library Director then informed the Board of a sad situation involving a library
patron who had been acting in an unruly and disruptive manner in the library, how
she handled the matter, and the net outcome of the situation.
It was decided by a unanimous vote of the Board that there would be no meetings in
July or August due to summer vacation schedules and difficulty involved in achieving
a quorum.
Ms. Porter then made a motion to close the meeting. Mr. Pulnik seconded the
motion and the meeting adjourned at approximately 9:15 p.m.