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From: Claire Nagel <cnagel @ uslink. net>(# Subject: Minutes to November meetng Date: November 20, 2011 1:24:56 PM CST To: Library Board <cnagel @uslink.net> 1 Attachment, 62 KB Hi everyone ... I'm attaching the minutes of our Tuesday meeting. Minutes to meeting of Pequot Lakes Community Library Board of Directors November 15, 2011 Chairman John Longnecker called meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Board members present: John Longnecker, Jean Clark, Sam Hennies and Claire Nagel Board members absent: David Anderson, Shirley Johnson and Lydia Loven Also present: Jerry Akerson, liaison to City Council; and Kaye Schroeder Sam Hennies moved to approve the minutes of the October meeting, seconded by Jean Clark. In the absence of Treasurer David Anderson, John Longnecker gave the Treasurer's Report. The balance in the library checking account is $11,861.20, which includes $1,000 designated for book purchases. The balance in the building fund checking account is $9,003.52. A motion was made by Jean Clark to pay $3,000 to Tom Adams on the balance the library owes him on his loan. Second was made by Claire Nagel. Payment will be made from the Building Fund checking account. This will bring the total balance due Mr. Adams to $6,000. The basket auction netted the library a total of $8,833.59. The treasurer's report was accepted by all present. President's report: John will be absent for the December and January meetings. Claire Nagel will preside over those meetings. There will be no meeting in February. Public programs: Jean Clark is in charge of Kitchigami Legacy Programs. She has been in contact with Barb Mann of the Kitchigami Regional System who has included our library in her planning for Legacy Programs. So far we have these programs planned: Saturday, Nov. 19, 10 a.m. — Toymaker Kent Scheer; Thursday, Dec. 8, 6 p.m. — Musicians Tim and Cindy Roggenkamp; Saturday, Jan. 14, 10 a.m. — Photographer Doug Ohman "Journey Down the River -Part 1 "; Wed., Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m. - Author William Kent Krueger; and Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. — Photographer Cal Rice. "Conversations With..." are Pequot Library's own programs. Suggestion from Jerry Akerson to present Carla Headlee, who has written a novel. No action was taken at this time. Old business: Ron Nelson is building shelving. Computers — Kaye Schroeder gave a report on her findings about the library's computers. She reported that public computers number 5 and 6 and the ones used by Donna and Nancy in the office were built by Roman Siltman and are good as they are. She suggested that public computers number 1 -4 be replaced or rebuilt. Complaints by patrons using those computers are common. Kaye also reported that we need to purchase licenses for all our computers for the use of Windows 7 and WordXP. She will return to our Dec. 20 meeting with an update. John Longnecker suggested that we start a fund for