06-28-2004 Minutes
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The regular monthly meeting of the Salina Public Library Board of Trustees
was held at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, June 28, 2004 in the Prescott Room.
The following Board members were present Monte Shadwick, Sheldon Lilak,
Lynne Ryan and Tom Arpke. Others present were Mike Strand from the Salina
Journal, Joe McKenzie and Cynthia Smull.
Lynne Ryan called the meeting to order.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY REPORT: The Friends have three new Board
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members. They are working toward the book sale to be held on August 6,7, and 8.
Friday night August 6 will be a Friends only night. It will then open to the public
Saturday and Sunday.
DISCUSSION: TECH CENTER UPDATE: Work on the Tech Center will begin
this morning. The new position of Tech Center Manager will be filled after
interviews in about two weeks.
The architect has given Mr. Medina approval for shop drawings. We will be
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having a construction update meeting with the contractor this Friday and the 1
Friday of each month there after. A bulletin will be written for staff informing them
on construction activities on a weekly basis.
Our South entry will soon be closed. It will probably be closed for most of
the construction time. The project completion date is April 3, 2005.
We have asked that Jones-Gillam to provide us with an artist rendering of
the completed addition for patrons to look at when they are in the library.
DISCUSSION: CHILDREN’S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT: The Board
members discussed the new Federal law. The library has always had filters on the
Internet computers in the Youth Services Department. We used Cyber Patrol until
recently when we switched to using the filtering software that the State Library
offered for free. If libraries receive federal funds they have to have filters on al l
computers in their libraries. We do not receive federal funds at present.
DISCUSSION: 2005 BUDGET: Joe presented budget materials to the Board. The
Board will discuss the budget in detail at the next Board meeting then vote on it for
publication. There is an approximate 2.24% increase in valuation. Salary and
benefits are factors in our budget. Health Insurance is projected to have a 5%
increase in 2005. The budget committee talked about coming up with longevity pay
of some kind for the people who are at the top of the pay scale.
FINANCIAL REPORT: May financials are where they need to be for the year.
STATISTICAL REPORT: Stats for May are down. They usually are this time of
year. Materials reserved through our web site are up. People are using Web Cat
more for making reserves and renewals. Stats on our web page are up 10% over
last year. Last month there were over 23,000 hits on web site.
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Fifty teen volunteers for the summer reading program returned from last
year. Youth Services Department goes once a week to the summer school program
at Central High School.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT: We have one department head who will be back to work
next week. Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. there will be a presentation in the staff lounge
where Kristi Hansen will receive her continuing education completion certificate
from Emporia State University.
We are going to have a staff member who will be out ill for an extended
period of time.
MINUTES: Lynne Ryan approved the minutes with no changes to go into the
permanent record.
BOARD COMMENTS: Construction will start today. We will need a quorum in
July to vote on the publication of the 2005 budget.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come before the Board, the
meeting was adjourned.
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Board Secretary, Betsy Scholten Date
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Recording Secretary, Cynthia Smull Date