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Carnegie-Stout Public Library
Library Board of Trustees Update
From the Meeting of
February 25, 2010
Present: President; Diann Guns, Paula Connors, Beverly Kolz,
Kristen Smith and Mike Willis
Excused: David Hammer, Elizabeth Leeper
58% of the fiscal year has lapsed with expenditures at 58% of the operating
budget. Revenues generated are at 77% of projections. While expenditures
appear to be on target this is due to line items that have been under spent.
Salaries are at 61% and not expected to level off before the renovation is
completed. This line item is under particular strain due to the demands of the
renovation project such as moving the collection and taking on projects that
are renovation related, but were not contracted.
Library visits are up 4% over the same time last year and on average a dozen
new library cards were issued each day. The area of strongest growth is in
electronic media and technology. Internet use increased 6 % and the
circulation of lap top computers was up 58 percent over the same time last
year. Circulation of downloadable media increased 103% over the same time
last year.
One hundred volunteers signed in on February 10 to complete the move of
the Youth Services Department from the second floor to the first. Work
continues with the addition of the end panels and canopies to the shelves and
punch list work.
Durrant suggested two options for speeding up the construction schedule.
The first was to close for 2.5 days for removal of the staircase from second to
first floor. The savings to the schedule would be less than a week. It was
agreed that the time savings wouldn’t justify closing and having staff not work
for 2.5 days. Durrant said the work with the stairs would take place before
regular business hours and on Thursday mornings. The second idea was to
start Phase Five early by moving half of the fiction collection, the adult
services workroom, and the Internet room. This would involve obtaining
pallets, shrink wrap, requesting off-site storage, renting a forklift, hiring a
truck, and staff time to evaluate what to store as well as packing time. This
would also mean no public Internet access for at least a month. It was felt
that a savings of two weeks to the schedule didn’t justify the investment of
resources and closing Internet computers to the public.
The Board reviewed the list of naming opportunities to combine some for
larger gifts in order to free up more of the smaller areas that have donors yet
to be assigned.
The Board approved that $1,660 in interest earned from the Community
Foundation Capital Campaign Endowment be transferred to the Renovation
Fund.
Library Board of Trustees
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Kristen Smith, Board Secretary
Paula Connors
David Hammer
Beverly Kolz
Elizabeth Leeper
Mike Willis