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MINUTES OF THE LIBRARY BOARD
OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY
August 24, 2006
A REGULAR SESSION of the Library Board of the City of The Colony, Texas, was called to
order by Chair Bullard at 7:11 p.m.
Present: Sandi Gehrke Place 1
Diana Kruzich Place 2
Jayme Skelton Place 5
Wayne Bullard Place 6
Joan Sveinsson Library Director
Jo Chantrill Library Secretary
Absent: Lorraine Clark Place 4
Sue Parks Place 7
Note: James Althaus Place 3: deceased
1. Citizen's Input.
Director Sveinsson reported that Member James W. Althaus died on August 21, 2006.
The memorial service will be held September 9, 2006 at 11 a.m. at Trinity Presbyterian
Church, with an informal "lunch on your own" gathering at Mi Casa following the service.
Members of the Board discussed potential ways to honor his twenty-four years of
service to the Library.
2. Consideration and approval of minutes of the board meeting held July 27, 2006.
The minutes were approved as presented.
3. Library Director's Report:
a. Status report re: operations.
The Library's opening on September 9th will be delayed until 1 :00 pm to allow staff and
volunteers to attend the memorial service.
The vacant staff positions have been filled as of August 22nd. Robin Shireman is the
new 25 hours per week Circulation Clerk and Blythe Smith is the new 19 hours per
week Library Page.
Starting July 2ih, the Library's operating hours schedule reverted to the reduced
schedule per the decision made by City Council during the budget process for this
fiscal year; the Library now opens at 1 :00 pm on Thursday instead of at 10 a.m.
The queuing and print management software CASSIE has been in place for over four
months and is a proven success in managing the utilization of the public access
computers.
Director Sveinsson, with the assistance of City Public Information Officer Baxter, will
be responsible for the maintenance of the Library's pages on the City web site after
the web consultant leaves. Reference Librarian Margolis is to receive training to
provide back-up to Director Sveinsson for website maintenance.
b. Status report re: promotional events.
Director Sveinsson scheduled promotional visits to local schools to inform teachers,
parents and students of the Library's Live Homework Help service. The service was
also promoted at the Friends of the Library booth at the National Night Out event in the
Legends on August 5th and will also be promoted at the Friends of the Library booth
during Sail Fair on September 16 and 17 at Stewarts Creek Park.
c. Status report re: county library funding. I
No report.
d. Update re: FY 2006-2007 budget.
Final decisions have not yet been made about the FY 2006-2007 budget. The top
priorities included in the Library's budget request are to restore the Library's full
operating schedule and to upgrade the 30 hours per week Support Services Clerk
position to full-time.
e. Status report re: grants.
When the decision was made to acquire queuing and print management software, the
plan was to phase out the Computer Assistant program and redirect the balance of the
Loan Star Libraries Grant to other needs. The funding will be used to acquire a
computer table for the new public access workstation and for keyboard/mouse shelves
for four wall-mounted catalog workstations to be installed this year.
The Loan Star Libraries grant will be $5,661 for FY 2006-2007.
f. Update re: Friends of the Library activities.
A donation of $3,154.73 has been received from the All Star Mustang Booster Club;
the Booster Club is disbanding; in dispersing their remaining funds, the Booster Club
selected the Library to be the recipient as a way to benefit the entire community.
The Friends will have a booth at Sail Fair on September 16 and 17 to promote the I
Library's services, recruit new members, and may have "bag of books" for sale.
Volunteers are being sought to help set up, work the booth, and take down the booth.
The Friends may also sponsor a puppet show or magician for the event.
The next Library Board meeting will be held on September 28th, 2006.
The meeting adjourned at 8:17 p.m.
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Chantnll, Secretary
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