Minutes from September 1, 2010
Board Meeting for the Trustees of Brown Memorial Library
Attendance: Joan Perry, Bea Howe, Rod Jones, Patty Furness, Lorraine MacLeod & Meg Fearnley
1. The minutes from the last meeting were read and accepted.
2. A motion was made to accept gifts and donations made to Brown Memorial Library in August in the amount of $1233.75. This amount includes $502 raised at the fundraising dinner last Saturday night (net amount after deducting the cost of the food), two donations from grateful summer residents and from FVB for donated yard work. The treasurer’s report was accepted.
3. The librarian presented her report. We surpassed the 1000 mark for adult books circulated in one month. More people are asking about e-books and downloadable audio books. The library was a mad house today, with a large number of children at story time and many patrons.
4. Our next book sale is this Saturday – shifts are covered. We have received many, many, many book donations and the volunteers have been hard at work organizing the sale.
5. The fundraising dinner was discussed. Most of the comments received re: the dinner were positive ones. Our thanks to the Masons for letting us use their hall, to Andy Anderson and Sandy Gove for the great local vegetables (sold to us at a very low cost), to Oona Tropeano for all her help, and to the trustees who donated some of the food and worked so hard.
6. The 2011 budget was discussed. The treasurer will be presenting the finalized budget at the next meeting. Her recommendation is to keep the budget the same as last year’s, reflecting the current economic times. She pointed out that the staff at the library is traditionally frugal, as illustrated by a story she told about Elsa shopping for trash bags at the Dollar Store and searching through the bin for the ones that had 3 extra bags/box. This is typical of the mentality at the library.
7. The rugs need to be cleaned and it was agreed that Bruce Edwards will be contacted.
8. The state held a Safety Inspection at the library. It resulted in our having to contact the electrician to replace all the safety lights, plus two chairs that only have four casters. While Mike was here, he replaced a ballast on a light fixture.
The next meeting will be October 6, 2010 at 6 pm.
Meeting was adjourned at 7 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Rod Jones, acting secretary