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� Minutes to meeting of Pequot Lakes Community Library Board of Directors Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Chairman John Longnecker called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Members present: John Longnecker, Lavone Sullivan, David Anderson and Claire Nagel and Jean Clark. Absent: Lydia Loven and Sam Hennies. Lavone Sullivan, seconded by Jean Clark, approved the minutes of the October 16 meeting. Treasurer David Anderson gave the financial report. Balance in the regular checking account is $7,378,49. Total of the three Endowment CD's is $77,241.50. We also have a Rainy Day CD at Lakes State Bank of $5,022.05. The Friends of the Library (FOTL) account totals $12,993.46. Treasurer's report was accepted by Jean Clark and seconded by Lavone Sullivan. The continuous book sale (bookstore) is underway. It is being set up on the west side of the meeting room. We discussed the possibility of having Ron Nelson build shelves in exchange for his being able to use the meeting room for a fishing rod-building class. Upon reading the application for groups wanting to use the meeting room, we discovered that ONLY tax-exempt groups could use it. We will obtain a bid from Ron Nelson for building the shelves. A committee was formed to name the new used bookstore: Nancy Adams, Claire Nagel and Cathy Malecha. They will consider anyone's suggestion. •._. There was no interest shown about a volunteer fundraiser coordinator so Claire Nagel will keep that item in her column. Nancy Adams looked into possibly purchasing the house across the street from the library, owned by Sharon Buschmann. The building could be used for our bookstore or the building could be torn down and the lot used for parking. We discussed the possibility of purchasing it but were not enthusiastic about the idea. We have an opportunity to purchase an update for our library software. The new software would automatically enter books into the computer by swiping the ISBN barcode and would make it possible to have an on-line catalog of all our materials. Using our server, the software would cost $2,350 including two days training and one year of support after which the support would cost $550/year. If we used their server, it would cost $1,875 and $850/year for support. We favored using their server, but made no decision about purchasing the software. A bid from Anderson Brothers was presented to the board for doing work on the sidewalk and parking lot in front of the library. For totally removing what is there and redoing it with a wider sidewalk, one handicap area adjacent to the front door, new blacktopping and striping the lot, the bid is $12,784.66. For doing the north parking lot (no sidewalk) the bid is $4,024.49. John Longnecker will get another bid befare a decision is made. Meeting was adjourned 7:50 by David Anderson, seconded by John Longnecker. `" Next meeting December 18. John Longnecker will be absent December and January. As usual, there will be no meeting in February, 2013.