06-16-2011 PLIBMPioneerland Library Board meeting on June 16, 2011
Summary notes from Stacey Nass (filled in for Roger Vacek)
V. Committee Reports:
A. Finance committee — all items were mentioned and approved with no real discussion. Passed the
budget based on the recommendation of the committee.
B. Personnel committee — Winsted new hires were approved, again with no real discussion.
C. Ad Hoc committee —The discussion was about the need to hire a "consultant" for approximately 6
months to assist Laurie with some of the director responsibilities until the full -time director position is
filled. The board approved a maximum amount of 25K to be spent on a salary during that 6 month
period.
VII. New Business:
1. Summer Reading Contract— Dassel was to approved spending $300 on a salary for an individual to
run a reading program in Dassel. 8 reading session including crafts.
VI. Old Business:
1. Legacy Update — End date for this year is 6/30/11 and it appears the Pioneerland is on track to
spend all of its Legacy Funds by that date so that no money will have to be returned. All expense
will need to be paid by 7/30/11. Laurie will have a report at the next meeting that will detail how
all the Legacy funds were spent.
2. Overdrive Update — Overdrive went live on the Pioneerland site on Wednesday, 6/15/11. Patrons
can download free audio and ebooks using Overdrive. Web site is
http 1pioneeriand.lib.overdrive.com . At this point the 1pad and the Nook will work with these
books but not the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle should also work with these books in the near future.
VIII. Director's Report
A. Sharon Noerenberg's retirement — last day 8/31/11.
B. Meeting dates — note that September 22"d is bolded because it's not the 3`d Thursday, it's the 4h
Thursday.
Added to the agenda at the beginning of the meeting was the state shutdown discussion. Laurie said
that Pioneerland is in very good shape financially and has reserves that could last up to a year so she's
not at all concerned about services being interrupted in the event of a state shutdown. The only thing
that will be held up is the next Legacy funding. That has to be approved by the legislature as part of the
budget so until the budget is passed there will be no programming planned. The proposal in the budget
is to have Legacy at the same level as it was previously.
Stacey
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