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University City Library board meeting minutes, 5/13/2009 <br />Attendance <br />Members Present:, Gwen Beckwith, Mary Costantin, Susan Glassman, Joy Lieberman, <br />Larry Nolan, David Stokes, Kyle Walker Members Absent: William Baldwin, Patrick Gallagher <br />City council liaison: Absent <br />Library staff: Linda Ballad -Director, Patrick Wall -Asst. Director <br />The meeting of the University City Public Library board was called to order at 5:20 p.m., <br />5/13/2009 by David Stokes, President. <br />Minutes <br />The minutes from the meeting of April 15, 2009 were approved. <br />Correspondence <br />None. <br />Friends' report <br />The Friend's Trivia night party collected $1400. <br />Council liaison <br />Councilman Price was not present. <br />Librarian's report <br />a. The Library received $10,000 from the athlete's and entertainer's tax released by the state. <br />b. The preliminary Library property tax rates for 2009 will be: <br />Residential $0.231 ($0.223 in 2008) <br />Commercial $0.258 ($0.262 in 2008) <br />Personal $0.280 ($0.301 in 2008). <br />c. Patrick Wall will send board members a draft of the questions to be asked in a telephone survey of UCity residents concerning Library services. A grant is funding the cost of the <br />survey. <br />d. The monthly circulation statistics for April 2009 showed a year to year increase of 10% <br />for the month. <br />President's report <br />David reported the healthy birth of his new son on May 1. <br />Committee reports <br />The Building & Grounds committee recommended that the board accept the bid from Bond Wolfe <br />to do the library's roof & skylight design and construction management. They were the lowest of the four credible bidders and have experience with multiple MLC libraries as well as working <br />with <br />UCity and the school district; they are LEED certified. <br />The Personnel & Policy committee recommended that the library director be retained for another <br />year with a 2% salary increase and an additional week of vacation. <br />Old business <br />Members reviewed and discussed the proposed revised Materials Selection Policy. In section 4 of <br />the Selection Guidelines -changes were made to the criteria for selection to broaden the criteria <br />and the list of diversity criteria was expanded. It was deemed not desirable to have separate <br />criteria based upon the media of the material (i.e., print/video/audio/electronic). Members <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />