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PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING
MAY 9, 1989 - 7:00 P.M.
BOARD MEMBERS: Catherine Fine, Chairperson
Kate Erslev, Vice -chairperson
Greg Auble
Christine Kneeland
Dan Smith
Polly Walters
Virginia Ward
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Catherine Fine, Kate Erslev, Polly Walters,
Greg Auble, Virginia Ward, Dan Smith, Christine Kneeland;
LIBRARY STAFF -- Jane Davis, Robert Holzfaster.
The meeting was called to order by the Chairperson, Catherine Fine. The
minutes of the March meeting were approved as distributed.
Ms. Fine reported that she had received an announcement from the Colorado
State Library concerning a workshop on conservation of library materials.
She tentatively plans to attend that workshop.
Members reviewed and discussed library statistics for April. Library
circulation continues to show growth. It is up 7.6% over 1988 and 32.4%
• over 1984.
Jane Davis, Library Director, announced that library staff had received
word that two United States Department of Education literacy grants had
been funded. The grants total $48,298 and will keep the library literacy
program afloat through 1990. She also reported that the summer reading
program planning was complete and that registration would begin June 1.
Ms. Davis reported that the proceeds from the Bretone trust had been
received and deposited in the Fort Collins Foundation. This represents
almost complete settlement of that estate. She also reported that the
Roberta Johnson estate had not yet been completely settled. Ms. Johnson, a
retired CSU faculty member who died in October of 1988, willed the proceeds
from the sale of the contents of her home to the children's area of the
library.
Ms. Davis reported that 15 citizens had applied for board membership. Ms.
Fine reminded the group that they needed to discuss and update their
orientation materials and process at the June meeting. New appointees will
be appointed as of July 1. Long time member Christine Kneeland will go off
the Board in June after serving nine years.
Under old business, the group discussed the Henry money, now totaling
$45,068.02 which is deposited in the Fort Collins Foundation. They
discussed the following options for creating a permanent endowment:
• - Spending the principal and retaining the interest;
- Spending the trust fund by putting it into another fund thereby
ending the Henry fund.
- Spending the fund by using it to match donations from the community
thus creating a new and larger endowment fund.
Boardmembers question their role as fundraisers and asked the Chairperson,
Catherine Fine, to meet with the President of the Friends of the Library to
find out what their fundraising plans are and how the two groups might
cooperate. They asked Jane Davis to get some information from the Poudre
Valley Hospital Foundation and from the Lincoln Center on how gift funds
and endowments are handled and how they are used.
Catherine Fine thanked the Board for their participation in the Council
Worksession on April 11. Jane Davis reported that library staff was
preparing specific recommendations for increased funding to be presented to
the Deputy City Manager and the City Manager. The group discussed the
necessity for funding for a balanced mix of materials, staff and equipment.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis
Secretary Pro-tem