MINUTES OF THE MEETING (Unaccepted)
October 28, 2015
Trustees of the Chazy
Public Library
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Roll Call and
Introductions: The meeting was
called to order at 5:32pm 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).
Public Forum
Friends of the
Library Report:
Fall wagon ride is
scheduled for November 6, 6-8pm, high school students will be reading stories and
snacks will be served at the library. The Friends will be serving refreshments
on Dec 2, at school for the NHS induction.
Review of minutes for
Sept 23, 2015:
Motion made by Debby to accept the minutes, seconded by Kristen, motion
passed.
Treasurer's Report:
Checking acct balance as of September 30, 2015 is $59942.47.
There is $885.99 in the Kern donation available for book
purchases.
Motion made to
accept Treasurer's report by Jill, seconded by Terry, motion passed.
Director' Report:
Activities ongoing.
The Director will be taking Wednesday, Nov 25th and
Saturday, Nov 28th off for Thanksgiving travel. Kay Kern will be
subbing.
Children’s yoga has been scheduled for the 3rd
Saturday of each month.
The trustees plan on selling tickets for the quilt raffle at
Stewarts Thanksgiving weekend and at Sacred Heart craft fair , November 21.
Still no action on the Early Literacy Asset Analysis,
Kristen and Terry will be looking into this. It is our understanding that the
deadline for this has passed and no one has asked us for information. The
trustees are not sure if we need to put any time into it. We may just do a
small survey of our patrons with children’s yoga announcement.
Correspondence:
Sympathy card and flowers were sent to the Director for a
family funeral.
Committee Reports:
Collections - Ongoing.
Policies – No activity.
Public Relations/Programs -
Story time scheduled for Nov 14 and children’s yoga Nov 21.
Property Maintenance –
Old Business:
All-in-one computer has been ordered through CEFLS.
Parking issues with the neighbors seem to be resolved.
Staff door to stairs in the library should be locked at all
times.
Debby presented new letterhead with current board member
names. George brought up the idea for future discussion that logo on letterhead
may need updating.
New Business:
Jill & Kristen
will get together to prepare Director evaluation. This needs to be done by the
January meeting.
The annual furnace cleaning has been scheduled for Nov 25.
Debby will be organizing the Holiday letter drive, she will
let the other trustees know when they can help her with envelopes.
Board members will decorate the library for the holidays.
We have 5 computers not running.
Meeting was adjourned at 6:35pm.
Next meeting, November
18 at 5:30 .
Respectfully submitted,
Jill Beeman
Secretary
