LINCOLN CARNEGIE LIBRARY BOARD OF
TRUSTEES
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Members
Present: Kathy Moss, Patrisha Street,
Terry Broberg, Karen Jeffers, Sunnie McBrde, Lynne Metz
Librarians
Present: Nancy Jensen, Mary Andersen
Kathy called
the meeting to order. Karen moved to
approve the September 8 minutes with Sunnie as second. Motion carried.
Mary
reported that story time is back in session averaging 20 kids per week. Leap students are coming the 2nd
and 4th Fridays. The Teen
Advisory Board (TAB) met with 12 members present. They won $50 in the Post Rock Festival and
earned $11 in the Cupcake Wars. They
requested approval for a double movie night at the library after the football
game December 4. A special story time by Nicki “Andersen” and her husband
featuring their book, Thumbs Up, will be presented Saturday, October 17th.
Thumbs Up teaches kids how to turn a negative into a positive. Nicki will
present story time this week at the regular time also.
Nancy
reported on the CKLS Bylaws workshop and sent out the changes to each member
before the board meeting. Two major
changes involve the number of hours that libraries are required to be open. Presently, 10% of hours must be on week-ends
and after 5pm. Beginning in 2016 there
are no requirements on how many hours the library has to be open and when those
open hours are. The second change is
that all bills must be approved by the board before they are paid. Due dates and board meetings don’t always
fall in line to avoid late charges. In
2016 each May the board must pass a resolution listing what bills will be paid
automatically without the board approving them first, AT&T, Kansas Gas,
Amazon and the payroll. Technology day at CKLS has good ideas for future
projects. Beginning November 1, we will
participate in a DVD swap with five other libraries. Each library selects 20 DVDs and sends them
to the next library. The following month
each library moves 20 more DVDs and at the end of five months our DVDs will
return to us. In 2016 CKLS will be
holding training sessions on setting up and maintaining a library website. CKLS has a 3D Printer for loan and Nancy
hopes to get it this fall. For a small
fee, patrons will be able to make small items and the kids will learn from it,
too. CKLS also loans a large high
resolution scanner which Nancy hopes to have in January or February. Nancy plans to use it to scan Board minutes
and make it available for patrons to scan historical photos. CKLS is collecting historical photos from
central Kansas for their Recollections of Kansas project. A Trustee dinner/workshop will be held in
Beloit, November 17, and will cover new trustee orientation and evaluation of
the library director. Nancy presented information regarding salaries and wages
and the 2016 preliminary budget.
Lynne moved
to approve the bills with Karen as second.
Motion carried. Lynne moved to purchase the mobile pyramid display for
$1236.00 with terry as second. Motion
carried. This will be funded with the
Don Meili memorial money.
Terry moved
to accept the new by-laws as presented by Nancy with Lynne as second. Motion carried.
Discussion
followed in regard to the TAB request for a movie night. The consensus was that one movie, not two,
could be set up at the library following the December 4 football game limiting
it to TAB board members as a trial run. Sunnie volunteered to help Mary
chaperone the event.
Terry moved
to go into executive session at 6:28 for 10 minutes to discuss salaries with
Lynne as second. Motion carried. Executive session was completed at 6:39.
Lynne moved
to increase both Nancy and Mary’s wages by $0.25/hr with Karen as second. Motion carried. (Mary at $8.25/hr and Nancy at $12.50/hr.
Terry moved
to adjourn with Sunnie as second. The
next meeting will be November 10, 2015 at 5:15pm.
Respectfully
submitted,
Lynne Metz,
Secretary
