HomeMy WebLinkAboutLibrary Board - Minutes - 01/22/199711 Council Liaison: Chris Kneeland 11 Staff Liaison: Kim Crowley 11
Phone: 225-0877
The Library Board Retreat was held on Wednesday, January 22, 1997, in the Ben Delatour Room of the Fort
Collins Public Library. The following Library Board members were present: Bill Cook, Anne Ostrye-
Macdonald, Joanne Monath, Jack Steele, Al Stone, Jacqueline Wallace, and M. Madeleine Wawro.
Staff Members Present: Kim Crowley, Marjorie Teklits
Facilitator: Nancy Knepel, Director, High Plains Regional Library Service System
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by the Chairperson, Jack Steele.
Items discussed were the Board's role as an advisory board as well as a citizen's activist group, their 1996
goals and accomplishments and methods by which they were achieved, what their role has been in the past and
what it will be to a new Library Director, how strongly they feel about a new main library and its location, full
service funding for the Harmony Library, the need for a stronger community voice in Library activities,
partnering and the technology issue in the Capital Improvement Program.
It was agreed to focus on a public relations plan to develop a vision and program for the future.
It is planned to submit a grant application under the Library Services and Construction Act to
obtain the services of a public relations expert to help develop and achieve the goals of the plan.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Marjorie Teklits