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Minutes of June 2014 meeting
The Hopkinton Board of Library Trustees meet at the Town Hall on June 27, 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 Stanely Pulnick 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 dose the meeting. Mr. Pulnik seconded the motion and the
meeting adjourned at approximately 9:15 p.m.