MInutes Library Bd 11 25 03 Carnegie-Stout Public Library
Board of Trustees'
Meeting Minutes of Tuesday, November 2S, 2003
The Board of Trustees of the Carnegie-Stout Public Library (C-SPL) met in the
Library Board Room at 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Present:
Board President Tom Tully; Board Vice President Michael
Shubatt(entered at 4:06 p.m.); Board Secretary Mary Strom(entered at
4:35 p.m.); Trustee ]ack Felderman; Trustee Alan Avery; Trustee
Kristen Smith; Library Director Susan Henricks; and Recorder
Denette Kellogg.
Public Present: Employee Elizabeth Dunn; City Solicitor Bill Blum; City Legal
Extern Dustin Baker; City Personnel Director Randy Peck; Brendan
Quann, O'Connor & Thomas, P.C.
1. President Tully called the meeting to order at 4:01 p.m.
"Noved to adopt the meeting agenda of November 25, 2003."
Notion: Fe/derman
Second: A very
Vote: Aye -5 ; Nay- 0
2. Approval of the Board Meeting Minutes of November 20, 2003:
"Noved to adopt the meeting minutes of November 20,
2003."
Notion: Fe/derman
Second: L/ndsay
Vote: Aye - 5; Nay - 0
3. Personnel Recommendation: Library employee Elizabeth Dunn requested a
closed session.
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"Noved to a dosed session pursuant to the Code of Iowa,
Chapter 21.5(1), To Evaluate the professional competency of an
in~'vidual whose appointment, hiring, performance or discharge is
being considered when necessary to prevent needless and
irreparable injury to that individual's reputation and that individual
requests a closed session."
Notion: Felderman
Library Board of Trustees
Minutes of November 25, 2003
Second: Smith
Vote: Aye - 5; Nay - 0
The Library Board went into closed session at 4:03 p.m.
"Moved to a open session,"
Not/on: Felderman
Second: Sm/th
Vote: Aye - 5; Nay - 0
The Board came into open session at 5:24 p.m.
"ploved to offer the fo/lowing separation agreement to
employee Elizabeth Dunn beginning November 26, 2003; that Dunn
provide the Library with a letter of resignation re/easing the Library
from any and all da/ms against the Library with language approved
by the Library Board's Counsel, the Library provide Dunn w/th six
months of medical insurance coverage through Nay 2004, the
Library Board would not contest unemployment, City Personnel
would prov/de a letter of reference requested by a prospect/ye
employer/this self-terminating offer is open and available for Ns,
Dunn until Noon, Thursday, December 4, 2003/unpaid leave will
begin November 26, 2003 until December 4, 2003, and should the
offer not be accepted that Dunn's employment be terminated."
Notion: Felderman
Second: Smith
Vote: Aye - Z; Nay - 0
4. "Motion to adjourn 5:28."
Plot/on: Fe/derman
Second: Sm/th
Vote: Aye - 7; Nay - 0
The Board adjourned at 5:28 p.m.
Mary Strom, Board Secretary
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