Board of Trustees

Adoption Meeting of the 2024 Budget

Monday Oct. 09, 2023 6:00pm

 

Call to Order: Loretta Sutherland, President, called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm.

Board members in attendance were Loretta Sutherland, Alicia Hollingsworth, Ruth Gerbig, Kathy Bray, and Laura Glunt.  Board member Floyd Barker was absent.  Library Director Kim Riley was also present along with Architect Harry Mohler.

 

Loretta called for a motion to approve the 2024 Budget and salary schedule that was presented at the public hearing held on September 11, 2023.  Kathy moved to accept the budget as presented.  Alicia seconded.  Motion passed.

 

Meeting was adjourned at 6:01pm.

 

Regular Meeting

 

Call to Order: Loretta Sutherland called the meeting to order at 6:10.  Board members in attendance were Floyd Barker, Ruth Gerbig, Laura Glunt, Kathy Bray and Alicia Hollingsworth.  Kim Riley, Director and Harry Mohler, Architect were also present.

 

Call for Quorum: Quorum was met.  

 

Unfinished Business

  1. Land – Forestar (via Wiehe Engineers) has filed with the plan commission and it will be on the

agenda for Oct. 19th.

  1. Bond issue – Harry presented an updated schedule. Discussion was held about moving on with the process and what comes next.
  2. Survey – Survey results were presented with 48 responses.
  3. Total eclipse – Tabled until next meeting. Kim is meeting the Hamilton County committee for the eclipse on Wednesday and will have more information next month.

 

Reading and Approval of Minutes – Minutes stand approved as read.

 

Reading and Approval of Financial Report – Receipts – $21,868.55

Vouchers – $24,071.59

 

Approval of Bills: Ruth moved to approve the bills, Kathy seconded the motion.  Motion passed.

 

Report of the Director

  1. Programming updates – Programing report will be attached. Book Sale made $193.
  2. Attended meetings – Kim attended 2 town council meetings, 1 Township meeting, 1 meeting with Hamilton & Tipton County Directors and attended 5 continuing ed webinars.
  3. Acquisitions: 245 items added to our collection in September. 2159 items circulated in September.
  4. Other – 1) The School Board will be approving an appointment at their meeting tonight. 2) Kim informed us that Main Street will be holding the town wide Truck or Treat here at the library and we will close at 5pm that night. 3) Hoopla has been live for 1 year now and has circulated 681 items during this time.  We still have approximately $300 of our initial $2000 investment left.

Communications – None received

New Business – None

Public Input/Adjournment: We adjourned at 7:01.

Next board meeting – Monday November 13th at 6pm