Minutes from February 3, 2015
The Board Meeting for the Trustees of Brown Memorial Library was called to order at 6:00 p.m.
Attendance: Mary-Chris Duncan, Garry Kalajian, Meg Fearnley, Bea Howe, Connie Scheffy, Nola Jordan, Robert Toppi
1. Bob Toppi was seated as a voting member.
2. The Secretary’s report was accepted as presented.
3. The library received no donations in January. All expenses are running as expected for this time of year, and Bea had nothing out of the ordinary to report. The treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.
4. Meg reported that January has been a very quiet month and included the Martin Luther King holiday as well as at least one snow day. In spite of that, we still had more patrons than January of last year. As town meeting has been scheduled for Saturday, March 14, Meg is concerned that we will need to close the library so all employees are free to attend. Tracey, who is not a US citizen, has volunteered to work and Meg will see if she can find someone else to be there with her that day.
5. Under Old Business, Meg reported that the first day of the new after school program was scheduled for this past Monday, which, unfortunately, was a snow day. We’re hoping children will turn out this coming Monday.
6. Under New Business, Meg reported that she has conducted performance reviews with all staff members. She rated them in a number of different areas (as per the form which was distributed to everyone last fall) and wrote comments when appropriate. The report was then discussed with the staff member who was given a chance to write his/her comments before both signed off on the sheet. A suggestion was made that it might be helpful to give the employees a couple days to think about their comments rather than having to respond immediately.
7. The Trustees voted to table Meg’s review until the next meeting. Each Trustee was given a copy of the evaluation form and will fill it out before the March meeting. They will discuss their responses with each other before meeting with Meg.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at 6:00 p.m.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:37 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Nola Jordan, Secretary