11-28-2005 LIMMinutes
Hutchinson Public Library Board
November 28, 2005
Members present: John Hass' 'or, Julie Jensen, Larry Ladd, Kay Peterson, Janet Vacek and Mary Henke
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(Ex-Officio)
Members absent: John Paulsen and Kay Johnson
President Julie Jensen called the meeting to order. Kay Peterson made a motion to approve the minutes
from the October 24, 2005 .meeting and John Hassinger seconded the motion. Motion passed.
Reports: 1. Mary reported that the State Library Task Force is still gathering information at
meetings throughout the state.
2. Pioneerland Library System (PLS) Ad Hoc Committee on Future Structures.
City and county administrators have received invitations to a December 15'h meeting at
PLS headquarters to learn about the issues facing PLS and discuss their concerns.
3. 2006 City and County budget requests. Mary talked to Nan Crary and Grant
Knutson and found out we will received the 4% increase as requested plus t/2 of the outlay
for automation software upgrade in 2006 and the other %2 in 2007. Kay Peterson talked to
Ken Merrill, City Finance Director, who said the budget included the dollars we requested.
The funds for the automation software upgrade will come from a capital improvement or
outlay fund.
Old Business:
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Cell phone policy. Mary reported that 2 signs were put up asking that cell phones
be turned off and favorable response was noted in compliance.
Community forum. Mary was unable to get committee together. Suggestions for
topics were global warming (state climatologist or Paul Douglas) and pandemics. (Mike
Osterholm). Mary encouraged us to keep our eye out by watching newspapers, news, etc.
for interesting topics and speakers.
National Library Week, April 2 -8, 2006 author visit. Mary spoke. to Doug Ohman,.
author of Barns of Minnesota and Churches of Minnesota about coming to speak, if he
can sell his books, he will charge $150 for a visit and is free during National Library
Week. The board chose Tues., April 4 as their I' choice and Thurs., April 6 as their Td
choice to have him speak on Minnesota historic landmarks.
Focus group follow-up. The group continued to explore the ideas offered by
focus group. Mary suggested we could add an evening book club.
Building entrance issues. The sidewalk replacement took about 4 days and people
used the south door with some complaints. The city offered us 2 wooden benches with cast
iron supports to place in from of the library seasonally with pots of flowers on each side.
The group approved.
New Business: There was none. Mary said that the change to the new automation system is scheduled
for March, 2006.
There will be no meeting on December 26 with our next meeting on January 23, 2006.
The meeting was adjourned.
Submitted;
Janet Vacek, Co- Secretary
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