CHELSEA BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES
Regular Meeting
MONDAY, April 14, 2008
7:00 P.M.
Chelsea Public Library
Minutes
1.0Call to Order – 7:05 – Present: Board Members Joe Spinella, Lisa Milchman, Russ
Martin, Kc Peterson Librarian: Dawn Hancy
2.0Public Presentation - None
3.0 Adjustments to the Agenda - None
4.0Correspondence
4.1Other - none
5.0 Public Comments
5.1 Other - none
6.0Reports
6.1Secretary
6.1.1Action: Approved Minutes
6.1.2 March 10, 2008
6.2Treasurer
6.2.1 Payroll update for Quickbooks – Could Ms. Cushman do the paychecks for the
library staff in future years? Lisa will ask if this is feasible.
6.2.2 Lisa is also looking into downgrading the Premier level Quickbooks to Pro Level.
If it is possible, we would save about $500.00.
6.2.3 Approve Treasurer’s report.
6.3Librarian
6.3.1 There is an opportunity for a grant from Ashgate Publishing for specific projects.
There was discussion on which of our many projects would benefit us the most.
6.3.2We received a $100.00 grant for Tom Joyceto kick off the Summer Reading Program.
6.4 Flea Market Rep.
6.4.1Report: None
6.5 Facilities Rep.
6.5.1Report: none
7.0Old Business
7.1 Program updates
7.1.1The Sustainability Fair was very successful. We should participate again next
year. Folks were impressed at the number of books our library has on the subject
of Sustainable Living.
7.2Book Discussion – Omnivore’s Dilemma – On a date in May
7.3Fundraising
7.3.1Annual Appeal – $250 more in donations.
7.3.2Plant Sale–We were going to only do pre-orders, but there may not be time. Russ will order 150 plants, from Wentworth Nurseries and get going on it.
7.3.3Flea Mkt. Book –We need three more tables for the Book Sale to replace the ones we lost while we were renting them.
7.4Automation – We are still putting Barcodes on books. Grace Greene and Amy Howlett
will be contacted to help us purge before all books are bar-coded.
8.0 New Business – Empty Board Seat
8.1 Into Executive session at 8:17
8.2Executive Session ended at 8:28
8.3Action: Motion to offer the empty Board position to Steve Gould.
8.4Reimbursement to Russ for the registration fee for the Municipal Conference at Lake
Morey – we will take the $55 from training.
9.0 Future Agenda Items
9.1State Aid to Vermont Public Libraries
9.2 Dawn Evaluation
10.0 Future Meetings
10.1 Regular Meetings
May12, 2008
June 9, 2008
10.2 Special Meetings – None at this time
11.0 Other Business - Personnel Matter
11.1 Executive sessionbegan at 8:34.
11.2 Executive session ended at 8:56
11.3 The Board members will each separately evaluate Dawn and meet in executive session at
the next meeting to write a joint evaluation.
12.0 Adjourn - 9:00