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Library Board of Trustee Minutes
September 20, 2016
I. Call to Order
President Altmann called the meeting to order at 5:30PM.
II. Roll Call
Trustees Present: Kerbey Altmann, Andy Blanco, Randi Murray, Mike Nagler,
Lisa Rosenthal
Staff Present: Brad McCulley, City Librarian
Sidney Poland- Recorder
III. Library Board of Trustee Minutes
The August 16, 2016 Board of Trustee Minutes were unanimously approved.
M/S/C (Murray/Rosenthal)
IV. Correspondence and Information
August Statistics
Circulation June 2016 June 2015 Per Cent Change
Main 52,560 55,749 -5.72%
Easton 7,084 6,666 6.27%
Total - 59,644 62, 415 -4.44%
V. Reports
A. City Librarian's Report
1. Personnel
• Megan Wong is on maternity leave; Kim Day is the acting
Technical Services Manager.
• Karen Kott of Technical Service Dept. is now working 4 hours a
day.. Tiffany Nacion and Ky.Bocangel are currently being trained ,
in the book ordering process.
• The Circulation Department has hired 3 new Library Aides
Jennifer Faraci, Vincent Lubrano, and Martha Ramirez.
2. Strategic Plan - On September 20th there will be an all staff
meeting at the Lions Club to review the drafts of the mission and
vision statement and participate iri a SWOT exercise. Jane Light
and Brad will moderate the event.
3. Passport Intake Update -The last person to be trained has been
certified. Tiffany Nacion and Patti Flynn will be the assistant
passport intake agents and will fill in when Jennifer Monroy is not
` available The next step is to send the application to the state to
officially designate the library as a passport agency.
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B. Foundation Report
• The Foundation's Annual Report for 2016 is in progress and is
tentatively scheduled for publication the first week of November.
• Recent donors who have supported Foundation fund raisers and
events will be invited to be guests 'of the Foundation on November
18th from 5:30-7:OOPM. The purpose of the event is for these
donors to tour the library and observe the many upgrades that
their contributions made possible. Library.Trustees will be
invited to attend the festivities.
• The annual Book & Author Luncheon is tentatively scheduled for
May 6th at the Green Hills Country Club.
VI. Unfinished Business,
A. Trends Committee
Trustee Murray and Brad met with the architect for the San Francisco
Airport Terminal I to present the possibility of having a small library
included in the plans. Brad noted that in order to do this our library
would have to work through the Pacific Library Partnership. Carol Frost,
Systems Director of Pacific Library Partnership and Peninsula Library
System is supportive of the idea. Technically SFO is considered to be an
entity of San Francisco so this could be an obstacle. The Trustees noted
that libraries in airports is not a new phenomenon. Amsterdam and
Nashville have libraries within their airports. Brad will write a grant
proposal to Pacific Library Partnership in the amount of$15,000 to fund
the project.
B. Cafe
Trustee Nagler inquired about the status of the Cafe. Since the
proprietors are not required to report their earnings to the library, we can
only surmise that receipts are satisfactory.
C. Study Room Sign Up
Technical Service staff is reviewing software programs that will allow our
patrons to book study rooms on their own through the Internet.
D. Library Book Bags -The Trustees agreed that they would fund the
purchase of 250 library book bags at approximately $12.00 a piece. It
was suggested that the new library mission statement be put on the
bags. Brad requested that the official vote to approve funding be
postponed until the mission statement is finalized.
VII. New Business
A. Library Monthly Financial Report
Trustee Murray requested that the Trustees have access to the library's
monthly financial report prepared by the City Finance-Department.
B. Plexiglas Containers
Staff wants to create programs around our new technology equipment
such as the 3D machine. In order to protect the equipment, it was
suggested that plexiglas containers be used.
VIII. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 7:OOPM. M/S/C (Rosenthal/Murray)
The next meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be held on October 18,.
2016 in the Library Conference Room at 5:30PM.
Res tfully Submitted
Bra ey�cCulley
Ci Librarian
Burlingame Public Library -