Library Board Approved Minutes - February 7, 2019

DeForest Area Public Library Regular Library Board Minutes
Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

  1. Call to Order and Roll Call
    • Secretary Gorres called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m.
    • Present: Gorres, Lawrence, Lowery, Runez
    • Absent: Englesby, Van Iten, Zeimet
    • Also present: Library Director Berg
  2. Approval of Agenda
    • Motion to Approve as presented: Runez
    • Second: Lawrence
    • Discussion: None.
    • Action: All approved
  3. Approval of Regular Meeting Minutes of January 3rd.
    • Motion to approve minutes: Lowery
    • Second: Lawrence
    • Discussion: None
    • Action: All approved
  4. Public Presentations / Communications
    • None.
  5. Approval of Bills
    • Motion to Approve the Bills: Runez
    • Second: Lowrey
    • Discussion: Berg noted that this month the bills from 2018 that straggled in during January are included as are some of the larger ones for 2019 such as the magazine subscription annual renewal and the annual bill for the ILS and Technology from SCLS. The Amazon bill has been divided into charges incurred in 2018 and those incurred in 2019.Berg answered a question about the SIP connection for Kanopy video streaming service.
    • Action: All Approved
  6. Reports
    1. Director's - The party for Louise was very well attended with lots of people from the past showing up to wish her a happy retirement. Village President, Judd Blau, showed up and read the resolution for Miss Louise at the reception. There were many teary eyes. The annual report was finished and ours was one of the first 9 turned in and completed. The awful weather had uninterrupted time to work on the annual report as an upside. Emily and Christa, the new hires, have now worked a full pay period and are settling in very nicely. Berg noted that finally all the paper work necessary to on-board a new full-time staff member seems to be done.
    2. President's - None.
    3. Village Update - Lowery noted that 1.2 million had been approved for the Public Service building and salt shed. It was re-bid for better numbers and will be built in the business area across from American Packaging. Dollars were added to bring in an assessment team for the police chief search. They hope to make a final offer by March 1st to the new chief.
    4. School - Runez reported that the school board had approved two resolution to be placed on the April ballot. The referenda is large in scope but should position the district well for future growth. There are information session planned to get out the information to the public.
  7. Old Business
    1. None.
  8. New Business
    1. Discussion and possible approval of the Annual Report to DPI.
      • Motion to approve: Lowery
      • Second: Lawrence
      • Discussion: Director Berg noted that as in previous years that these numbers in isolation don’t mean much. She will bring these data in the form of a spreadsheet that compares year to year to the next library board meeting. That way trends can be spotted.
  9. Future Agenda Items
    1. Review Annual Report data and trends.
  10. Adjournment
    • Motion to Adjourn: Lawrence
    • Second: Lowery
    • Action: All approved.

Meeting was adjourned at 6:33 p.m.

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