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C I T Y O F F 0 R T C 0 L L I N S
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING
SEPTEMBER 11, 1990 - 7:00 P.M.
BOARD MEMBERS: Virginia Ward, Chairperson
Greg Auble
Kate Erslev
Jerome Roselle
Sharon Conley
Chris Bracken
Anne Ostrye-Macdonald
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Virginia Ward, Anne Ostrye-Macdonald; Sharon
Conley, Chris Bracken; Kate Erslev; LIBRARY STAFF -- Robert
Holzfaster.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by the Chairperson, Virginia
Ward. The minutes of the August meeting were approved as distributed.
Reports
Robert Holzfaster, Administrative Aide, distributed the August statistical
report. Board members noted that through the eight months of 1990 33,517
more items had been checked out. This is a 6% increase over 1989.
Because Jane Davis, Library Director, was attending a City Council
worksession her report was submitted in writing.
- Building improvements - The public bathrooms have been completely redone
and look very nice - better than they ever looked - even when the
building was new. Stair treads were to have been replaced over Labor
Day. Unfortunately the wrong treads were shipped to the contractor. As
soon as he gets the right ones it will be done.
- Public access catalog - Furniture and lines are in place. Terminals
should be here any day.
- Sumner reading - Final count shows 4918 children registered and earned
4568 prizes. Children's staff is working on a complete report to be
distributed to the Library Board and the Friends Board in October.
- Proposeelo
d 1991 funding - The first year of funding for the five year
"Library Devpment Plan" has been requested for 1991 funding.
Currently the status on this request is:
- Recommend ongoing funding (already built into proposed budget):
Library materials $15,000
Southside book drop $14,750
Total $29,750
Recommended for one-time funding:
Three OCR label readers $ 7,500
Dial up access to library data base $ 2,500
Six compact workstations $27,600
Media checkout desk $ 2,500
Total $40,100
These recommendations were made by the manager to the Council.
Non -recommended for one-time funding:
Small desks for microcomputers $ 3,000
Laser printer $ 1,167
Compact storage and display units $ 8,500
Total $12,667
- Non -recommended for ongoing funding:
.75 FTE Library
.5 FTE Library
.5 FTE Library
.5 FTE Library
.25 FTE Library
Total
Clerical Asst. $13,251
Info. Asst. $11,315
Info. Asst. $11,315
Clerical Asst. $ 8,834
Clerical Asst. $ 5,111
$49,826
Kate Erslev moved that the Library Board write to City Council stating that
they are discouraged by the lack of support for full funding for the first
year of the library development plan. Anne Ostrye-Macdonald seconded the
motion. All votes were favorable. Virginia Ward will draft a letter and
share it with other Board members for their input.
Sharon Conley and Kate Erslev, appointed by the Chair as an ad hoc
committee to judge the Library Board sponsored contest, announced the
winners. The theme for children was "What I like about the library."
Winners are, pre-kidergarten through kindergarten, Sarah Zick; grades 1
through 3, Danny Huffman; grades 4 through 6, Jill Shumaker; junior high,
Becky Oetken. The theme for the adult contest was "How the library has
changed my life." The adult winner is Cynthia Bergen. Ms. Davis will
arrange for the gift certificates and notify the winners and post the
winning entries.
Virginia Ward reported that she, Jane Davis, Diane Hogerty from the Fort
Collins Foundation and the five members of the Library Fund Advisory
Committee had met for lunch on September 7. Ms. Ward asked Christine
Kneeland to serve as the temporary chair of the group. The group will have
an organizational meeting on October 4.
Old Business
Board members discussed the April 1990 Board/staff retreat. They want to
plan another informal meeting with a meal for early 1991 to assess what has
been accomplished in 1990 and identify new issues.
The -final item under old business, completion of the new member
orientation, was held for the October meeting.
New Business
Because of the absence of two members election of officers was tabled until
the October meeting.
Members discussed changing the regular meeting time. The second Tuesday of
the month conflicts with Council worksessions making it impossible for the
Council liaison to attend. Board members felt that they had already
blocked in the time for 1990. They want to discuss this again in January.
Ms. Ward recommended that all members reread the library study and the
library development plan thinking in terms of developing a process for
community input into the question of expanding library service outside the
current library building.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:43 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis
Secretary Pro-tem