1989-06-20 PEARLAND LIBRARY BOARD MEETING MINUTESPEARLAND LIBRARY BOARD MINUTES
June 20, 1989 7:30 P.M.
The meeting was called to order by Rosalie. Present were Richard
Tetems. Ed Fondren, Dave Beckman, Fay Hunter, Nancy Sallee, Bettye
Alexander, Mayor Tom Reid, Dede Williams, and Judy_ Demecs. The invo-
cation was given by Tom.
Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Tom asked some
questions about Braznet and how it works. This was discussed. Bettye
said she heard the Alvin High School librarian comment on how useful
the system has been to her students
The treasurer's report was given by Nancy as follows:
$ 270.73 balance
- 150.00 disbursement for Roslyn Cogburn, speaker
$ 120.73 Balance
Dede reported that she Has spoken to the vendor in charge of paying
for the copy machine use, as he is far behind. Then she showed some
Summer Reading Club materials and said about 1,000 children are signed
up. Already in June 16,000 books have been circulated. The library
has two CETA workers. The system being used for extra programs for
the reading club is that 125 tickets have been handed out to keep the
number from becoming too large; parents are allowed to go in after
that number have been circulated if there is room remaining.
Dede circulated information showing the library's requests from the
upcoming budget to the city, including additional shelving to cost
$2,000.00. The city will pay for the shelving from last year's budget
and this will be installed in the fall. The main change requested in
the upcoming budget is to raise the McNaughton Plan books to 55 per
month, as most larger libraries have. (This is in addition to the
McNaughton core collection.) Some budget questions were discussed,
such as one about long distance telephone bills, raised by Dave. The
Mayor commented that he thinks the county -city partnership is getting
a good value per dollar investment from the library. The statistical
report shows our library has more card holders than any other library
in the county.
The Mayor said he thought it would be beneficial for all to have
a library representative appear at Council and give a status report.
Dede said she would speak briefly about library activities at Monday's
meeting.
Dede showed a letter that has been composed to explain to the public
the need for a magazine indexing system. The microfiche system which
has been in use recently has been paid for from the regular library
budget. Bettye said some local businesses might be interested in
helping with the cost of the indexing system and she will ask for
suggestions from the Chamber of Commerce.
Bettye reported on attending a budget hearing for the county earlier
in June. She said the first priority for libraries was for raises for
some library personnel who have not had raises in some time. Billy
Joe Plaster told Bettye he felt a tax raise is imminent but that more
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money should be provided, he felt, for libraries. A large amount will
be expended for the Freeport Library because it is new. Bettye said
she felt a letter to Commissioner's Court commenting on Dede's leader-
ship was in order including a recommendation that she should be making
more money since librarians in surrounding libraries are paid more
than in our county. This was discussed among the board and it was
decided that Bettye would write such a letter and discuss it with
Steve Brown, who is absent tonight due to vacation.
Nancy said she saw in the paper that Steve Brown had appealed for
volunteers for libraries countywide. Dede then commented on this and
showed the new handbook for volunteers.
Respectfully submitted,
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ru�ytemecs, Secretary
osalie Olah, Chairman