Brown Memorial Library Trustee
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Attendance: Mary Chris Duncan, Connie Scheffy, Patty Furness, Annette Leonas, Sandy Wadlington, Meg Fearnley, and Ellen Barselle. The board meeting was called to order at 6:05 pm.
1. The secretary’s report was presented, and a motion was made and passed to accept the report.
2. The treasurer’s report was presented. The library received $368.00 from donations: $250.00 from general donations and $118.00 from the on-going book sale. A motion was made and passed to accept the donations. Library has received its first installment from the town of $15,000 dollars. Maintenance expenses were high the past month due to inspections of the lift and the furnace. Treasurer reported 2018-2019 budget was passed. Nola noticed that Huckleberry Propane and Oil had been charging us the market rate instead of consortium rate, the library was credited $145.00 dollars. A motion was made and passed to accept the treasurer’s report.
3. The librarian’s report was presented. The interlibrary loan system is down across the state of NH. State of NH passed money to replace the system, however, a new product has not yet been chosen to replace the old system. In the meantime, librarians have additional work on their hands processing book requests from patrons in a less efficient way.
4. Old Business
A. Mary Chris and Annette met with designers from Sage’s Interiors, Amanda Raymond and Rick Lily, to discuss lighting options for the library. Designers will provide a quote for their services within the next two weeks. Within the past several months, several lights have burnt out leaving the library dark in a few areas. Meg will contact Paul Flinkstrom to request replacement of these lights as getting new LED lights installed may take another several months.
B. Trustees will discuss job description and public advertisement for Library Director position at the next meeting in March.
C. Annette Leonas is working with Nola Jordan on learning duties of treasurer to help with the job in the future.
5. New Business
Water testing results from DES came back and results were that stagnant water in pipes have copper and lead in them. However, water testing returned negative once pipes were flushed with running water. Meg is waiting for results for volatile compound analysis to be returned.
Meeting was adjourned at 6:50pm. The next meeting will be held on March 7, 2018, at 6:00pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Ellen Barselle