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MINUTES OF THE LIBRARY BOARD
OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY
June 25, 2009
A REGULAR SESSION of the Library Board of the City of The Colony, Texas, was called to orc
by Chair Skelton at 7:02 p.m.
Present: Sandi Gehrke Place 1
Diana Kruzich Place 2
Wanda Spears Place 3
Jayme Skelton Place 5
Wayne Bullard Place 6
Joan Sveinsson Library Director
Jo Chantrill Secretary
Absent: Sue Parks Place 7 (Personal)
Place 4 is vacant.
1. Citizen's input.
None.
2. Minutes: Discuss and consider approval of minutes of the board meeting held on March 2
2009.
The date for this agenda item was incorrect; the minutes for March 26, 2009, were approv,
at the April 23, 2009 meeting. Consideration of the April 23, 2009 minutes will be placed
the July agenda.
3. Discuss and consider approval of proposed Exhibit and Display Policy.
At Director Sveinsson's request, this item was tabled to the July 2009 meeting.
4. Discuss and consider approval of revisions and updates to the Library's Long Range Plan.
At Director Sveinsson's request, this item was tabled to the July 2009 meeting.
5. Discussion and consideration of recommendations regarding appointment of representati
and alternate representative to the North Texas Regional Library System for the 9/1/2009-
8/31/2011 term.
Member Bullard moved to recommend appointment of Sandi Gehrke as representative a
Sue Parks as alternate representative. Member Kruzich seconded the motion. The moti,
passed unanimously.
6. Receive and discuss The Colony Library Foundation Treasurer's report.
1) Dissolution of the Foundation.
2) Transfer of Foundation assets to Friends of The Colony Public Library.
These items were carried over from the April 23, 2009 agenda in error; the report w
received at the April 23, 2009 meeting.
7. Receive and discuss Friends of The Colony Public Library President's report.
1) Annual meeting.
2) Book sales.
3) New fund-raising items.
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These items were carried over from the April 23, 2009 agenda in error; the report was
received at the April 23, 2009 meeting.
Receive and discuss Library Director's report.
a. Status report re: operations.
1) Girl Scout Gold Award project.
The Teen Advisory Panel (TAP) will host the first program in a series featuring movies
based on books on Tuesday, June 30th at 6:30 p.m. The movie will be The Outsiders
based on the book of the same title written by S. E. Hinton. A discussion of the book
will precede the movie. The movie license for this program series has been funded by
the Friends of the Library. TAP members will sell bottled water and packaged snacks to
raise funds to help mitigate the cost of the license.
2) Public relations events.
No report.
3) Changes under consideration for the FY 09-10 budget.
Council Member Kirk Mikulec was recently appointed as Council liaison to the Library
Board. He recommended to Council that the proposal to expand the Library's operating
hours to include Sunday afternoons be funded. He also recommended that the
Library's collection development line item be increased by $5,000 to expand the
Library's offerings of electronic resources. Director Sveinsson presented information
about these proposals to the Council at the June 17th work session. These
recommendations were favorably received and Council gave direction that funding for
these proposals be included in the FY 09-10 preliminary budget.
b. Status report re: grant applications and projects.
1) Loan Star Libraries Grant.
With Youth Services Librarian Snyder on intermittent medical leave, the temporary
Youth Services Library Assistant position funded by this grant has become critical to
maintaining services levels this summer.
2) Texas Book Festival Grants.
Youth Services Library Assistant Kirchner has taken responsibility for ordering the
materials funded by the Texas Book Festival Grant. The majority of the items have
been ordered and received.
3) We the People Bookshelf and Picturing America Art Grants.
Due to the late arrival of the art prints and to other workload issues, the implementation
of a program series to introduce these materials to the community has been postponed
to this fall.
The next Board meeting is scheduled for July 23, 2009.
The meeting adjourned at 7:27 p.m.
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Ja e elton, Chair
Chantrill, Secretary