HomeMy WebLinkAboutLibrary Board - Minutes - 02/23/1971FORT COLLINS LIBRARY ButvRD - SPECIAL MEETINGS
Feb. 23, 1971
The Board met in Mr. Webber's office at 7:30 p.m. in executive session, at the
request of Miss Dorothy Hunnicutt. Mr. Webber and Miss Hunnicutt were also present.
The matter under consideration was the action of the Board on Feb. 17, 1971, to
return Miss Hunnicutt to her former classification of Assistant Cataloger and employ
a new person as cataloger. This action resulted from a serious personnel problem
that had developed during the probationary period for Miss Hunnicutt as cataloger.
"I have requested that this meeting be held in order to determine the reasons for
the decision last week to demote me. I feel. that I was not given a satisfactory
trial of iy supervisory abilities for the last six months and request that I be
placed on probation for another three to six months in order to prove myself, one
yay or the other."
Signed: Dorothy A. Hunnicutt
"It is my recommendation that the Library Board reconsider its decision in the
personnel matter concerning Dorothy Hunnicutt.
"The circumstances surrounding her unsatisfactory supervisory probationary period
should be considered. It has been agreed that Miss Moore was a different individual
and that a great many sources of action should have been taken that were not, such as
dismissal at an earlier date. Therefore it is felt that Miss Hunnicutt should
receive an opportunity to prove herself under perhaps normal conditions but with close
scrutiny.
'Mrs. Diana Howard, presently employed part-time in the children's department and
catalog department, has accepted the offer of full-time employment as cataloging
assistant should Miss Hunnicutt be retained as cataloger:'
Signed: L. Webber
The Board 'felt that altho an exceptional situation had existed, in that the probatio
assistant had proved slow to learn her duties, Miss Hunnicutt had not shown adminis-
trative ability in her management of the probelms. They did not reverse their
decision of Feb. 17.
- Lois H. Henry, Sec.