12/12/2001 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Library Trustees 12/12/00 Page Two III REPORTS : (Continued) 1 . Library Director : Helene explained that the budget would be due orn' January 8th, and the Library Trustees would not meet between now and then. The trustees were asked if they felt they would need another special meeting to review the budget , or did they. want to go with the budget as submitted . The board agreed that- they would go with the budget . Helene explained that on December 6th, Fd DeFoe, Darlene Powers and she went to Boston to the Board of LibraryCom- missioners ' office and net with Patience Jackson, their head of the construction department . It has been strongly sug- gested at the grant workshop Helene has attended that you bring your plans in before submission so that they can be previewed to determine whether -there was anything off-track. They would have the cppo.rtunity to reprise it before submission. They spent about three hours with Ms . Jackson . There were a number of areas she focused on that she felt there were short comings . Helene explained that at this point,, Darlene is totally re- working the suggested changes which were basically layout changes; A copy of the Library Director ' s written report for the month of November 2000 is attached for your information. . A copy of ,Janet Burke,' s monthly report to Helene DeFoe dated December 1 , , 000 also attached . . Friends of the Library : ,Jim Walke.r , President of the Friends , reported that the boosale brought in $76. 00 The Friends had delivered two boxes of large print books - to the Council o.n Aging for their use , Jim also called and suggested that they might li e .to use our talking book section. As a result of some boos that the Friends had delivered to the school , a letter of thanks had been written by the teacher, and wa.s signed by all the children. . David reported that Helene , Jim Walker and David had attended a workshop at the Wareham Library, Library Advocacy. Dari felt it was enormously worthwhile . This was a group of people, library directors , trustees , building-committee members who came to hear a panel of four libraries that have just completed the construction process or a major renova- tion . eno ra-t .on . The first speaker was the head of fund-raising .-for the Brewster Lades Library .