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PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES -- REGULAR MEETING (:tIY CLERK
SEPTEMBER 13, 1983 -- 7:00 p.m.
BOARD MEMBERS: Lloyd Spawn, President
Christine Kneeland, Vice-president
Jerry Johnson
Don Morgan
Sarah Bennett
Tom Sigl
Polly Walters
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Lloyd Spawn, Christine Kneeland, Jerry Johnson,
Sarah Bennett, Don Morgan, Polly Walters, Tom Sigl; LIBRARY STAFF --
Jane Davis, Robert Holzfaster, Ellen Willis.
The meeting was called to order by the Library Board President, Lloyd Spawn.
The minutes of the August meeting were approved as distributed. There was
no correspondence.
Jane Davis, Library Director, distributed the statistical report for August,
1983. Circulation continues to be slightly down from 1982.
Ms. Davis reported that the 1984 proposed budget for the library is $835,620.
The budget will go to City Council for final approval in October. The book
budget for 1984 is projected at $125,000.
Ellen Willis, Children's Librarian, reported on a very successful summer of
children's programming and children's reading.
Jane Davis read the resolution she will present to Colorado Library Associa-
tion at their annual meeting in October. This resolution is a condemnation
of the shoddy bindings of new books and is directed to the publishers and
distributors of those books.
Jane Davis made available to members copies of the Larimer County Library
Services Board's consultant's report. She reported that the Larimer County
Bookmobile was making only limited community stops - no school stops - and
would probably cease operation entirely in the next few weeks.
Ms. Davis reported a gift of $446 to the Children's Area of the Library from
the Poudre R-1 SAC and a gift of $200 toward replacement of microfilm of the
Coloradoan from Woodward Governor.
The new Boards and Commissions Handbook was not available for distribution.
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Under Old Business a committee made up of Christine Kneeland and Polly
Walters, Library Board members, and Ellen Willis from the staff reported
to the full membership that they had read and discussed the two children's
books, for which reconsideration requests had been received. Ms. Kneeland
moved that the books be retained as part of the children's collection.
Don Morgan seconded the motion. The motion carried. Jane Davis was asked
to write to the respective concerned parents thanking them for their interest
and informing them of the board action.
Jane Davis reported that she had met with people from Parks Maintenance
about the plantings around the library building. Forestry will come and
trim and then a crew of DUI community service workers will come and work
under a parks supervisor to get out the weeds and rake the gravel and so
forth.
Jane Davis announced that the State Board of Education was seeking citizen
input on educational questions in Colorado and would be holding an open
meeting in Greeley on September 16.
The first order of new business was election of officers. Lloyd Spawn was
re-elected president by unanimous ballot. Christine Kneeland was re-elected
vice-president by unanimous ballot. Jane Davis, Library Director, will con-
tinue to serve as secretary pro-tem.
Board members discussed the wiring of the building for cable TV. They felt
that the committee formed to evaluate Columbine Cablevision's service should
be informed that wiring of the Fort Collins Public Library had not been com-
pleted. Members also asked the library director to contact Streets and
Traffic concerning repainting of parking lines in front of the building and
fixing the curbs around the building.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis
Secretary Pro-tem