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PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES -- WORK SESSION
FEBRUARY 17, 1977 -- 11:30 a.m.
BOARD MEMBERS: Sarah Bennett, President
Wilson Wilmarth, Vice-president
Frank Johnson, Jr., Secretary
Robert Burns
Joan Deines
PRESENT: BOARD -- Sarah Bennett, Robert Burns, Frank .Johnson, Jr.,
Joan Deines; LIBRARY STAFF -- Larry Webber, Jane Davis,
Robert Holzfaster.
The library board met from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the library con-
ference room for a work session.
Tt was announced that the New Fort Collins Library Building Fund had
received $25.00 from Quota Club and $750.00 from the Zonta Club.
The. revised Planning and Zoning Board By-laws and Rules of Procedure
• will be distributed to board members for comparison with the revision
of the Library Board By-laws now in process.
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Suggestions for sections for the new board manual included minutes,
policies, procedures, charter, by-laws, agendas, reports, current
correspondence, history, programs, statistics, budget. The board sug-
gested the staff sort out and combine these suggestions into practical and
workable sections.
'Elie board president suggested that agendas be prepared leaving space
for board members to note action taken under or beside each item.
The board asked that the library's annual report be ready by the April
meeting as a basis for budget discussion in May. The board plans to
meet with the Larimer County Library Board in June to discuss county
funding for libraries.
It was announced that Colorado Library Association membership was op-
Li.onalat a cost of $5.00 per person.
It was also announced that the annual city Boards and Commissions Dinner
would be held February 24th at the Holiday Inn.
The POLIdre Valley Art League Show will be held in the library the first
two weeks in May. The board asked that the library director secure a
written statement from the Art League acknowledging that the library
• assumed no responsibility for security, damage, or theft of the art
.works in this show. It was also felt that since the library was not
providing any security or display panals or handling the material in
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• any way, no gallery fee shou.1d be charged.
Programming in progress and planned was announced. This included the
gardening series, the French book discussion groups, the International
Center/Library discussion group and the special films planned for
National Library Week in April.
The library board asked for a special report on a proposed education
program and also on the use of the children's books in Spanish.
The library board will next meet for their regular March meeting on
March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the library conference room.
The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submetted,
Jane Davis, Secretary Pro-tem
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