Board of Library Trustees Meeting
June 5, 2007 (Draft Version)

7:00 p.m.

Medway Public Library

Attendees:

Trustees:

MaryAnn Cabibbo, Vice Chairman
Elliott Edwards
Meena Jain
William Roberts, Secretary
Wendy Rowe, Chairman

Citizens:

Margaret Perkins

Minutes:

1. Approval of agenda

Motion to approve agenda: (WLR1, MJ2) passed unanimously

2. Secretary's report (May 8)

Motion to approve secretary's report: (WLR1, MAC2) passed unanimously

3. Citizens Speak

Our citizen remained silent

4. Budget Report
• Fiscal year endgame

Wendy is taking care that we pay the right amount from the right bucket so that we don't spend too much donation money.

• Minuteman F08 will be 19,234.43 ($3K more than estimated)

Consensus was that we not force one, just wait for one. Chuck (in absentia) thought that we should force it, but he was the only one.

5. Acting Director's Report
• Need STM transfer of fine/fee special revenue
• Elevator passed inspection; safe til Feb
• Still need $600 emergency light batteries
• Patron complaint re wasteful parking lot lighting

Wendy'll check drawings to look for light timer since past director Phil McNulty thinks there is one.

• Patron complaint: requests more classic lit (on CD) since no ILL

Wendy will followup in email requesting specifics. Margaret will order some.

Our issue to decide: "Melville vs. Steele"

Some discussion, but nothing settled. Elliott expressed a strong preference for more Classic Literature and less Danielle Steele.

6. Old business
7. New Business & Fundraising
• Summer hours; any change?

Some discussion of saturday hours, but it's not practical at this staffing and financial level so nothing was decided. Saturdays need at least two employees and we only have three; even if we used some temps, we'd need someone who knows what's going on and that's a lot of saturdays. We would need to talk with the staff and have them agree to a plan before we could even consider Saturday hours. summer hours remain unchanged.

• Book Donations

Coming think and fast

• LibriVox free public domain audiobooks online

Bill Roberts brought this to our attention and will look into it further. Wendy said she would put a link to it on the library website.

• staff computer training

Town is providing training at no cost to departments. Library employees are going

• Flag protocol

Elliott pointed out that the flag is not illuminated at night and has taken the responsibility of raising/lowering it so that it's always up while we're open. Someone suggested we ask around to see if a veteran would donate to light the flag. It's not just the light but also the electricity.

• Odd Fellows Fall dinner/auction?

Planned, but nothing done so far.

• To ponder: libraries are under siege; what can we do?

We'll ponder some other time

8. Next Meeting: Tues July 3 7pm

Adjourned: 8:50 (???1,???2) it was unanimous anyhow