11/4/2004 LIBRARY BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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TORN OF MASHPEE LIBRARY BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes of the Meeting of November 4, 2004 Committee Attendees: Also Attending: Sheldon Gilbert Helene D Foe, Library Director Bonnie Barrett John Rent, Mashpee Commons Tom O'Neill .Jerry BlumengartenT Publicity Committee Jane Solan Steve Cook Members Abet: Dave Burton Sunny Merritt Ed DeFoe Diana Lannon Maureen Founds Chairman Sheldon Gilbert called the meeting to order at ;40 PM. REVIEW OF MINUTES of 10/12/04 The committee unanimously approved the minutes as submitted from the LBG 'meeting of 10/12/04.- VOTING o! 4:VOTING F ESULTS Sheldon Gilbert reported on the Nov. 2"a election results regarding Question 1: 5,091 for the bond exclusion, 2,236 against, 470 no Grote. This represents a 9%.margin in favor of the new library. reasons given for the negative votes included. concern about possible tax increases, the public school system competing with the new library for money toward needed textbooks, and the demolition of the existing library. Dave Burton reported on a conversation he had with Becky l omkey regarding her concern about the library bond exclusion taking away needed funds for school books. He explained to her that the funds for school books come from a separate Town budget. A letter to the editor of the l ashpee Inquirer also has cjarified to this issue. SUBCOMMITTEE E POTS Publicity—Bonnie Barrett. Bonnie Barrett summed up the results of the subcommittee's efforts in threewords: "WE DJD IT!" she expressed her thanks to all those who worked along with her on the subcommittee for their generous contributions of time and effort to make it all happen. Bonnie further-state -that because the Grote was tied in to a federal election as opposed to special Town election, more people came to the polls, and we now have a much greater mandate for the library, which gives us a much better feel for where the majority of the townspeople stand on support for the new library. 4 Construction—Steve Cook and Jane Dolan. Steve reported that he is reassessing and compiling information taken from the reports submitted by those individuals who attended the library forum this spring. He would like to set up a meeting with the LBC to go over the recommendations submitted by the forum attendees before meeting with the architect. Jane Dolan stressed the importance that the schematics submitted with the state grant application include the required square footage for the new library. Pros and cons of the inclusion of a basement will meed to be discussed. Sheldon Gilbert brought up a problem with a possible plan to use the new library basement for storage of the Archives. The grant application stipulates that unless the Archives are under the direct supervision of the library, It would not be permissible to house a-separate department in the library. Fundraising— Tom O'Neill. Sheldon Gilbert reiterated that a comprehensive fundraising program is needed to guide all future fundraising efforts, spelling out targets and target dates, and indicating who is responsible for what. This is a requirement for the Grant application. We need