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ANNANDALE AREA
LIBRARY BOARD
Members Present: Cindy Ahrens, Bonnie Gutzwiller, Julie Olson, Jill Healy, Barb Reitmeyer, Mary Iverson, Mark Casey (City), Carla Asfeld (Librarian), Brandi Canter (GRRL). Members Absent: Joelle Arlt
Introductions: Welcomed new members, Mary and Barb
Review of Agenda: Added: Nominating Committee for 2012 members
Secretary’s Report: Minutes from May 13, 2010 read and accepted as published.
City Report: Mark Casey, no report
Librarian’s Report: Brandi Canter, Regional Supervisor for GRRL distributed handouts (attached to original) and spoke to the omnibus tax bill which included a two year suspension of Maintenance of Effort, the statute that requires cities and counties to maintain consistent and adequate funding of libraries. Governor Dayton vetoed on May 24th. Special Session scheduled.
Brandi addressed Maintenance of Effort, which guarantees consistent funding for libraries, Legacy Funding Minitex and MnLINK, and the passing of bill HF844, which provided the appointment of a public library representative to serve as an adviser to the Governor’s Workforce Development Council.
Brandi also provided the Board with phone numbers and email addresses for the House and Senate Conferees.
Carla reviewed the past year library purchases and events:
- 4 new chairs in use, paid for by the FOL and Annandale
Improvement Club.
- 2 new additional Internet stations installed.
- DVD’s moved closer to circulation desk to help prevent theft.
- Legacy Funding: Annandale received a total of $5500, which was spent on
various programs and performers from August 2010 through June 2011.
(Spreadsheet attached)
- Summer Reading Program: Those readers that finished the program
received board books, rubber duckies, water blasters, flying frogs, or USB
memory sticks, depending on the age group.
- Winter Reading Program: 121
patrons signed up and entered a drawing for MP3 players, mugs, book bags and a
regional prize of a Nook. This
program tracked 860 books.
- Summer Story Time - Annandale resident Jennifer Moe will provide 6 story
times. Annandale FOL will pay
Jennifer’s stipend.
- Staff Changes: Janis Fossen
retired and Jolene Forsberg is staffing her hours.
Dawn Grossinger resigned and Carolyn Rickenberger is staffing her hours.
- Inventory - 13 volunteers put in a total of 43 hours and located over 15,000
items.
- High $5 Campaign, total received by GRRL was $18,184.10.
$100 will be given to Annandale.
- New Policy - As of June 1, 2011 GRRL staff will no longer be able to handle
FOL or Improvement Club monies. A
lock box will need to be provided for any money exchange.
Petty cash no longer available, reimbursements will be provided by GRRL.
Brandi explained that this change was required after GRRL’s yearly audit
and had nothing to do with GRRL staff issues.
Carla shared with us the new Doug Ohman book on libraries; Annandale is one of the featured libraries.
Friends of the Library Report: Bonnie reported that the May 20th Author Dinner with Julie Kramer was a success with approximately 110 guests.
Book Sale donations will be taken at the Library starting the 1st of June. The Book Sale is July 2nd, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at City Hall.
The next Friends’ meeting will be June 7th, 7 p.m. at the Library.
Publicity Committee: Ron Remington, Cindy Ahrens, Bonnie Gutzwiller and Dean Cheney met May 23rd. The 1/4 page ad will appear in the Advocate on May 31st.
Unfinished Business:
None
New Business:
Election of Officers. New slate of officers was presented and voted upon.
Julie Olson, President
Jill Healy, Vice President
Bonnie Gutzwiller, Secretary
Cindy will email members the new roster.
Nominating committee for 2012: Cindy Ahrens and Mary Iverson
Next Meeting May 17, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:55 p.m.
Bonnie Gutzwiller