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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLibrary Board - Minutes - 02/14/19890 • C I T Y O F F 0 R T C 0 L L I N S PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 14, 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; LIBRARY STAFF -- Jane Davis, Robert Holzfaster. The meeting was called to order by the Chairperson, Catherine Fine. The minutes of the January meeting were approved as distributed. Ms. Fine read a letter from Ed Stoner, Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, thanking the Library Board for the library study they sent to Council in December. Library statistics were distributed. Boardmembers commented on the large number of reserves placed each month. This highlights the public demand for more library materials. The number of telephone calls also continues to rise. Jane Davis, Library Director, reported that April 11 has been tentatively mentioned as a date for a worksession with City Council on the library study. Ms. Davis will know if this date is firm by the March meeting. Ms. Davis also reported that library staff was again hosting Great Decisions, an annual foreign policy discussion group. This is the tenth year the library has sponsored this program. Ms. Davis reported that settlement of the Roberta Johnson estate would be completed in March. Proceeds from the sale of Miss Johnson's household goods were left to the library for children's services. The Minnie Bretone estate should also be settled in March or April. Ms. Davis distributed informational material on the March 7 sales tax election. Boardmember Dan Smith presented a report on the College Station branch of the Bryan Texas Public Library. This is a storefront branch in a shopping mall and has been open about eight months. It is a very attractive branch of about 3300 square feet and has been very popular. Jane Davis reported that she had contacted the Fort Collins Foundation for information on how the Henry Trust, to be liquidated in 21 years, could be made a permanent endowment. The attorney for the Foundation said there were several options. They include: - 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 will look at these and other options in the future. They would like to know the amount received from the Bretone estate and also what the Friends of the Library plan to do to raise funds for the Library Endowment they have recently created before they make a decision. Boardmembers again discussed the meeting room policy. Letters had been received from the Fort Collins Chapter, Colorado Archaeological Society, and the Front Range Atari Users' Group asking that the policy be changed to allow non-profit groups to book the room for regularly scheduled meetings a year ahead. This is not possible under the current policy. Greg Auble moved that the current policy, established when the library building opened in 1976, be retained. Virginia Ward seconded the motion. It carried unanimously. Jane Davis asked that the Library Board discuss strengthening the policy against business advertising in the library. Library staff has found that a local business continues to put business cards in books though they have been asked not to do so. Greg Auble moved that the Library Board request the Library Director to work with the City Attorney's staff to add a sentence or sentences to the existing policy on posting of public notices that will prohibit business cards and business advertising but not prohibit newspaper and magazine advertising and not preclude recognition of business sponsorship of library programs and activities. Polly Walters seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously. Michele Depue, a journalism student from CSU, also attended the meeting. The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Jane B. Davis Secretary Pro-tem