8/21/2001 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Library Trustees 8/21/01, PAGE Two III REPORTS: Continued D. Building Committee : Liais n Select an Wayne Ta rlor David suggested that the trustees invite their liaison to a future trustees ' meeting. Not the September meeting because. they would be receiving the- report ' from Gary, and getting a better sense of where they stood, but maybe the October� meeting would work. . In Car .E 'natian' s opinion, the selec3men should not e the � , ones making decisions -for the library in terms of staffing. In the' past,, the -selectmen, have- usually taken whatever recommendations the trustees have rade and given i.t . thei , r blessings'. That .,was, traditionally the way 'things have worked here in -Mashpee., Gary further explained that once the library was given a budget at Town Meeting. the trustees could make decisions n how that budget was going to be spent. Gary asked, "When are we going to finally sit with the selectmen and town counsel, and draw the lines in the sand? we are a board. We are not a committee that reports to- the select- men. elect- men. Carlo stated that this was a good issue to be raised. It was not unreasonable to go back and explain, "You are in- terfering in an area you have no business interfering. " This is an area .where we do not agree . David explained that he F- elt with the incidents of the p last three or. four. . ee s , w - have made it abundantly clear where we s tared. David asked. Garr if he would research at the State level and at the local level in a very investigative way, and report -back to our trustees at the next{ meeting, cite' cause- law relative to ghat is the trustees' role* Helene passed out to the- meeting .CLAMS Sys-tern Circulation. x''11 Statistics for June and July 2001. Helene thought th,e trustees might find it inte-restincr to see a comparison of Mashpee Library- to other communities . Hel,ene added that there wag a difference . in the figures listed on this sheet (June) and what they have re} o ted- to Helene -oxo the annual statistics , You can see that Mashpee Library is right up there close behind libraries that are much- larger in size than Mashpee. We are a very active library for the size community that this is, for the number of hours that the library is open.