MINUTES OF THE MEETING (Accepted)
September 23, 2015
Trustees of the Chazy
Public Library
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Roll Call and
Introductions: The meeting was
called to order at 5:31pm by George Brendler (President). Present were
Trustees: George Brendler, Debby Powers, Jill Beeman, Kristen
McAuliffe and Terry Tregan. Also,
attending were Frances Fairchild (Director) and Rae McAuliffe (FOL).
A new picture of the board was taken with new trustee Terry Tregan.
Public Forum
Friends of the
Library Report:
FOL held a meeting on
September 22. At this time they have decided not to hold
their Annual
Christmas Tea. They are planning on holding a wagon ride in November,
and will be hosting
the National Honor Society tea.
Review of minutes for
July 22, 2015:
Motion made by Terry to accept the minutes, seconded by Debby, motion
passed.
Treasurer's Report:
Checking acct balance as of July 31, 2015 is $61,812.31.
Checking acct balance as of August 31, 2015 is $58029.92.
Motion made to
accept Treasurer's report by Jill, seconded by Kristen, motion passed.
Director' Report:
Activities ongoing.
Free passes to the Wild Center were used by 19 families.
Discount pass to ECHO in Burlington were used by 3 families. Debby and Francie
will be attending a workshop in
October for a new way to request MACR records for
bar-coding.
The quilters group that uses the Community room on Thursdays
donated a quilt to the library for us to raffle off. Debby will look into
getting tickets printed.
Still no action on the Early Literacy Asset Analysis,
Kristen and Terry will be looking into this.
$2500 will be received from the Betty Little grant.
George will talk to the neighbors about their cars being in
our parking lot when events are scheduled in the Community Room.
Correspondence:
Jill will send Stewarts a Thank you note for donating ice
cream to our social in August.
Debby sent a sympathy card to Sonya Clark.
George signed the CEFLS contract for Horizon services.
Committee Reports:
Collections - Ongoing.
Policies –
Director’s pay schedule was reviewed and the board decided
not to make any changes at this time.
Public Relations/Programs -
Email list for publicity is done, just needs some weeding
out of duplicate names.
Story times for the Fall have been assigned.
Hopefully children’s yoga will start up in October.
Property Maintenance –
Some minor repairs that need to be done. We will check with
the school’s Key Club and
National Honor Society to see if they are interested in
tackling any of these as a Community Service Project.
Old Business:
Trustee’s book sale took in $151.
Will be purchasing all-in-one computer for staff use for
$600-700.
George took 20 boxes of used books to Schroon Lake library
for their book sale.
New Business:
Francie will be back to full time evenings and Karen will
fill in as substitute in an emergency.
We need to look for a maintenance person for yard and other
work.
Kristen will be contacting the school Library Club and Key
Club to see if they can
Donate some time to the library.
The LTA Trustee Institute will be held in Plattsburgh May 6
and 7, 2016.
Meeting was adjourned at 6:30pm.
Next meeting, October
28 at 5:30 .
Respectfully submitted,
Jill Beeman
Secretary
