Board of
Library Trustees Meeting
August 5, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Attendees:
Meena Jain, Vice Chair
Margaret Perkins, Assistant to the Director
William Roberts, Secretary
Wendy Rowe, Chair
Citizens:
Minutes:
Secretary forgot to email them in time, so deferred till next month
None
We wound up owing the town $7 for the last fiscal year
Grant is done, came within $250 of spending it all
Grant enabled us to have adequate copies on hand of the school summer reading lists
We have our first spreadsheet in some time. Wendy will email the source of funds for the various line items
Find out what neighboring libraries are charging so we can adjust our own
Library will be a repository of disaster info (because as someone on the state committee said "Everyone knows where their local library is")
There are usually 2 designated disaster sites per county. The process for picking them is on-going.
It's likely that our State Reps will submit a special bill to get us back our certification.
Will need a real director by next July
Margaret got us several new databases including Heritage.com & Ancestry.com
Proposed projects include:
interest the schools in getting students involved
Prize would be a gift card
Use booksale books to simplify (no anguish about returns)
Friday after lunch (so won't be disturbed by library crawling with story hour kids in the morning)
Motion to adjourn (7:45), MJ1, WLR2, passed unanimously
| Account | Acct # | Start Balance | Expen. To Date | End Balance | % Spent |
| Salaries - Full Time | 5110 | $75,036.00 | $5,772.00 | $69,264.00 | 7.69% |
| Salaries - Part Time | 5111 | $58,709.00 | $4,778.09 | $53,930.91 | 8.14% |
| Longevity | 5150 | $600.00 | $0.00 | $600.00 | 0.00% |
| Electricity | 5211 | $17,733.00 | $17,733.00 | 0.00% | |
| Heating Fuel | 5212 | $7,500.00 | $7,500.00 | 0.00% | |
| R & M Miscellaneous | 5240 | $10,553.00 | $451.00 | $10,102.00 | 4.27% |
| Telephone | 5341 | $1,150.00 | $74.13 | $1,075.87 | 6.45% |
| OPS - (Minuteman bill) | 5380 | $19,892.00 | $19,831.39 | $60.61 | 99.70% |
| TOTAL - GENERAL FUND | $191,173.00 | $30,906.61 | $160,266.39 | 16.17% | |
| Start Balance | Expen. To Date | Income to Date | Account Bal | ||
| Memorial Donations | 5400 | $48,608.10 | $1,593.29 | $46.20 | $47,061.01 |
| Tuchinsky Fund Interest | $38,141.13 | $27.15 | $38,113.98 | ||
| Tuchinsky Fund Principal | $102,869.11 | $102,869.11 | |||
| Library Restitution Fund | 024-610-706-4773 | $11,691.50 | $209.83 | $11,901.33 | |
| Copier & Printer Rev. Fund | 024-610-722-4840 | $537.45 | $52.60 | $590.05 | |
| Meeting Room Rev. Fund | 024-610-723-4840 | $489.18 | $489.18 | ||
| Free Public Library | 2017 | $1,609.29 | $1,609.29 | $0.00 | |
| TOTAL - OTHER FUNDS | $203,945.76 | $3,229.73 | $308.63 | $201,024.66 |