{"id":1546,"date":"2022-09-13T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2022-09-13T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:35:43","slug":"board-of-trustees-meeting-minutes-tuesday-september-6-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/2022\/09\/13\/board-of-trustees-meeting-minutes-tuesday-september-6-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes: Tuesday, September 6, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rockingham Free Public Library<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Board of Trustees<\/span><\/span>
Tuesday, September 6, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


Present: Carol Blackwood, Don Tretler, Martha Rowley, Ryan Coyne, Claudia Sofield, Margo Ghia,<\/span>
Dwayne Whitehead, Ian Graham, Mary van Hartesveldt<\/span><\/span>
Absent: Brady<\/span> Weinstock, Mary Shepard<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to download a .pdf of these minutes<\/a>
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AGENDA<\/span><\/span>
1.<\/span> Call to Order<\/span>: 6:30 pm<\/span><\/span>
2.<\/span> Additions to Agenda for routine administrative matters and\/or pressing matters that will require<\/span> ratification at a future meeting<\/span>: n<\/span>one<\/span><\/span>
3.<\/span> Public Comment (3 minutes per person)<\/span>: none<\/span><\/span>
4.<\/span> Approve Minutes of<\/span> Jul<\/span>y 5<\/span>, 2022<\/span> Meeting<\/span>:<\/span> approved unanimously.<\/span><\/span>
5.<\/span> Financial Report: Investments and Annuities<\/span>: Mary van Hartesveldt discussed the library\u2019s<\/span> investments and annuities<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>
6.<\/span> Director\u2019s Report<\/span>: Director discussed the challenges of scheduling<\/span> repair<\/span> work on the building;<\/span> the Book Bike grant has been extended into the fall (converting from summer program to<\/span> afterschool program); a local group<\/span> has proposed the possibility of<\/span> installing<\/span> permanent bike<\/span> racks on the concrete pad in front of the building; b<\/span>anned book week will feature a display at the<\/span> library.<\/span><\/span>
7.<\/span> Motion and Discussion: approval for expense lines $1,000 or more over budget<\/span>: no action<\/span> needed<\/span><\/span>
8.<\/span> Motion and Discussion: approval for use of Building Reserve Fund<\/span>:<\/span> Ghia<\/span> moved that<\/span> the library<\/span> director is<\/span> authorized to use not more than $5,000 in building reserve funds to pay for urgent and<\/span>
unanticipated repairs to the library building in FY23. The library director will report any<\/span> expenditures from the fund at the first board meeting following repairs. Rowl<\/span>ey seconded.<\/span>
Motion passed unanimously.<\/span><\/span>
9.<\/span> Motion and Discussion: FY23 Director salary increase<\/span>: Ghia moved that the board approve an<\/span> FY23 salary increase of 2% for the library director, as recommended by the Personnel Committee<\/span>
on July 5, 2022, retroactive<\/span> to July 1, 2022. Sofield seconded. Motion passed unanimously.<\/span><\/span>
10.<\/span> Schedule committee meetings<\/span>: Personnel Committee tentatively scheduled for October 4, 2022, at<\/span>
6:30pm. Finance Committee and Historical Collections Committee will meet prior to next board<\/span>
meetin<\/span>g. Next board meeting is November 1, 2022.<\/span><\/span>
11.<\/span> Other Business<\/span>: none<\/span><\/span>
12.<\/span> Executive Session<\/span> (if necessary)<\/span>: none<\/span><\/span>
13.<\/span> Review Action Items, and Proposed Agenda Items for Next Meeting<\/span><\/span>
14.<\/span> Review and Approve Warrants<\/span><\/span>
15.<\/span> Adjourn<\/span>. Rowley moved. Meeting adjourned at 7:41pm.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Submitted by Ryan Coyne, September 7, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rockingham Free Public Library Board of TrusteesTuesday, September 6, 2022 Present: Carol Blackwood, Don Tretler, Martha Rowley, Ryan Coyne, Claudia Sofield, Margo Ghia,Dwayne Whitehead, Ian Graham, Mary van HartesveldtAbsent: Brady Weinstock, Mary Shepard Click here to download a .pdf of these minutes AGENDA1. Call to Order: 6:30 pm2. Additions to Agenda for routine administrative matters … Continue reading Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes: Tuesday, September 6, 2022<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockinghamlibrary.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}