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KENAI ADVISORY LIBRARY COMMISSION
March 2, 1993
Kenai Community Library
Jerry Hanson, Chairman
1. CALL TO ORDER:
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Hanson at
7:44 p.m.
2. DOLL CALL:
Commissioners present were: Hanson, Heus, Brown, Rodes,
Murphy, Quesnel, and Brenckle. Also present were Library
Director DeForest, Councilwoman Monfor and KPC Librarian
Clausen.
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Murphy moved to approve the agenda as presented. Hearing no
objections, the agenda was approved.
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF_Januar9 5
Brown noted on page two her name had been omitted from the
list of re -appointed Commissioners, and her name was added.
Heus moved to accept the minutes as corrected, and there were
no objections. Minutes were approved with corrections as
noted
5. PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD: None.
6. LIBRARIAN'S DEPORT:
The proposed budget was turned in. A total of $1,000 was cut
from Professional Services and Operating Supplies, however,
DeForest had agreed to the cuts. There will be no raises
since there is no money in the budget for them. The proposed
budget will now go to the Council for workshops and approval.
Movement is finally occurring on awarding the $10,000 state
grant. The Council will appropriate $5,000 of this grant for
two replacement disks for the computer that are being
exchanged from 185MB to 324MB which will allow for more
expansion. The City will also contribute the another $5,000
for this replacement. The remaining grant money will be
appropriated for books--$3,500 this fiscal year and $1,500 for
next year.
Since the state grant did not include repairs, a purchase
order has been prepared for Council approval to repair 54
chairs and four stools. New chairs would cost about $400 per
chair and the repairs to the chairs will cost $60 per chair.
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Mrs. Brown is coordinating with KSKA radio station to have the
radio membership birthday party at the library. She is also
coordinating for an author to put on a reading program/story
hour during the last part of April.
Nancy, Ethel, Linda, and Emily will be travelling to Nome
Friday for the library conference. They will attend until
Tuesday. After that, Emily will be in Los Angeles from
March 13 to April 3.
7. OLD BUSINESS:
a. Budget. Already covered under Director's Report. When
the Council is ready for public workshops, Monfor will
notify the Commissioners of the workshops.
b. State Grant Award. Covered under Director's Report.
Some discussion regarding the process of how the money is
being released.
C. Student Reps. Hues spoke with Mrs. Simone at the high
school, however, she was never given any applications to
hand out. Hues will make sure the high school gets the
application forms. Commission will look for a junior so
he/she can also serve next year.
d. Space Planning Needs. Discussion as to what services and
what needs will be necessary in the future. Monfor
suggested doing a survey of the library patrons to see
what their wants and desires are for future services
before doing any preliminary designs. Future demographic
information will also be needed to plan for major needs.
Heus, Brenckle, and Hanson will meet to discuss creating
a survey for the patrons.
e. CD Grant. DeForest stated the grant paperwork was filled
out but she has not yet heard anything back.
f. Book Sale. No date has been selected for the book sale,
however, it is planned to be around Mother's Day.
8. NEW BUSINESS:
a. Library Conference. As stated under the Director's
Report; Emily, Ethel, Nancy, and Linda will be attending
the conference in Nome later this week. Clausen will
also attend the ALA conference in New Orleans, however,
DeForest will not attend.
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b. The next meeting date will be Tuesday, April 6, at
7:30 p.m. Heus asked for review of the Library's Goals
and Objectives to be placed on the next agenda.
Brenckle stated Girl Scout Week begins March 7. She is a
leader for a local girl scout group. One of the projects they
are doing to earn a merit badge on reading is to make posters
to advertise the Kenai Community Library. They will present
the posters to Library Director DeForest and then will place
them around town.
Heus commented how nice it is to have all the Commissioners in
attendance at this meeting.
Rodes moved to adjourn the meeting and Brown seconded.
Chairman Hanson adjourned the meeting at 8:35 p.m.
Respectfully sub ' ted,
E rlene Reed, cording Secretary
for the City of Kenai