August 24, 2017
Present: Harry Kavros (presiding); Steve Smith; Susan (and Alexis) Vreeland; Shannon Turlington; James Maxey; Andrea Tullos (ex-officio)
Absent: Samantha Bryant; Stacey Gamble
Submitted by: Shannon Turlington, Secretary
AGENDA
- Call to Order by Harry Kavros at 6:02 p.m.
- Consent agenda: unanimously approved
- Celebrate garden party (stats in consent agenda); discussion of how to improve party as an annual event
- Library update (Andrea)
- Staffing changes
- Planning southern branch facility actively over next few months
- Overall vision that the library is about empowerment
- Summer reading program was a success
- No requests this month
- September book sale (Harry)
- Online signup is set up: Shannon will email reminder to all Board members and send out call for volunteers to membership
- 9/23 pre-book sale event (Harry)
- Steve and Harry are willing to do an interview on WHUP
- Stacey and Marcia should coordinate moving of items for online book sale in Friends room
- Board to send Marcia a get-well card
- Sonnets event discussion (James)
- Governance (Steve)
- Second strategy meeting tentatively scheduled for a weeknight in December after the annual meeting
- Begin process of reviewing bylaw changes and potential Board members
- Financials reported
- Communications (Shannon)
- Policy and Procedures manual on Google drive and physical copy will be placed in the Friends room
- Password Policy presented for approval; Steve moved to approve; Susan seconded; approved unanimously
- Minutes Procedure presented for approval; Steve moved to approve; Susan seconded; approved unanimously
- Document Retention and Destruction Policy to be reviewed and approved in the next meeting
- Wild Apricot database discussion; tabled for future Board strategy meeting
- Annual meeting discussion (Harry)
- Membership discounts (Susan): choose dates for discounts in early October
- Next meeting is September 14, 2017
- Adjourned at 7:14 p.m.
