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Bucks County Free Library Board MINUTES
OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF FEBRUARY 15, 2005
The Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bucks
County Free Library was held at the
A MOTION to APPROVE the minutes of the Regular Meeting of January 18, 2005 was made by Bowman, SECONDED by Balchis and unanimously APPROVED.
Staff Reports:
Report of the Executive
Director:
Presented an update on Administrative Staff 2005 projects.
Sue Ziegler received a $25,000 LSTA training grant. Focus will be on Human Resource training and training for board members.
Warminster Twp. Library received a $14,0000 LSTA grant for Spanish children’s programs. Jan O’Rourke assisted in the writing of this grant.
A Consortium meeting was held last month. Present were BCFL Administrative staff, DAC members, CPL Directors and Board members. Discussed were two options for Consortium and Network agreements – (1) Corporate structure and (2) Contractual structure. Regularly scheduled meetings will be held until everyone comes up with an agreement that is amenable to everyone.
Met with representatives of the
Report of Assistant Director
for Branch Libraries
Presented an overview of the February 8th meeting of the newly formed Employee Benefits Committee. This Committee was formed as a result of Union negotiations.
Working on Building Audits. This is being done in order to get a better idea of what is happening at each BCFL facility. Branch Managers will prioritize building needs. Data will be provided to Building Committee to review immediate priorities for 2005 and also 5-year planning.
Gave status report on Perkasie’s HVAC replacement.
Presented written Personnel Report for January 2005.
Presented written Statistical Report for January 2005. Report of District
Consultant – submitted in writing. Ms. Kominiarek gave a summary about research
on Homebound Delivery by mail program.
Report of Information Technology Manager – submitted in writing.
Grundy Library will be re-opening in April. They may not be ready to migrate off the Network by that time. May still be connected to Network for another month.
Morrisville Library has informed BCFL that they are currently reassessing their position regarding only having 4 of their PCs funded by the County and shared State funds. They would now like to have 8 PCs funded as originally planned. Because the change in plans involves shared State funds that are negotiated, this request will to be reviewed with the CPL Directors at their next DLC meeting.
Report of the Business Manager:
A MOTION to APPROVE the payment of bills for January 2005 in the amount of $603,291.16 was made by Balchis, SECONDED by Brinker and unanimously APPROVED. A MOTION to APPROVE the preliminary Financial Statements for January 2005 (subject to audit) was made by Bowman, SECONDED by Brinker and APPROVED unanimously.
Executive Director and Business Manager met today with representatives of the Wachovia Bank to discuss the Michener, Weinberger and Brunhouse investments.
Board Reports – Committees did not meet. Ms. Kominiarek reported that an advertisement
for the Development/Fundraising Director was posted on non-profit recruitment
WEB sites today.
Correspondence – submitted in writing.
Meeting
was opened to Public Comment. No public
in attendance.
Unfinished
Business - None
New Business – President asked that Board Members stay after the meeting to decide on standing dates for Board Committee to meet each month.
There being no further business, a MOTION to ADJOURN was made at 6:30 p.m. by Bowman, SECONDED by Brinker and so MOVED.
Respectfully submitted, Carolyn
Lechelt
Executive Secretary
APPROVED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARCH 15, 2005
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