Minutes 09-27-00Boynton Beach City Library
Advisory Board Minutes
September 27, 2000
Present: Board members: Marva Collins, Madon Grammer, Alice Otis, Valerie
Pleasanton, Dorothy Walker, Alice Warren, and Dan Holthouse. Library Director:
Virginia Farace.
Absent: Judy Sanders (out of town), Jane Zimmerman (broken hip)
Co-Chair Marion Grammer opened the meeting at 3:10 PM in the program room of the
Boynton Beach City Library.
The minutes of the last meeting were approved as distributed.
There was no correspondence.
Unfinished Business:
The library budget was approved by the city commission without additional funds for the
book collection. The city manager suggested that the additional funds be raised through
donations. The Board discussed vadous ways to increase donations.
The library is listed as the second item on the Capital Improvement Project list. It was
allocated $20,000 in the budget to start the process so that the library can meet the April
1, 2001 deadline to file for a state construction grant. The grant (maximum of $500,000)
would be allocated in 2003.
Boynton Beach City Library Long-Range Plan was approved by the City Commission at
its September 19 meeting. The State Library requires that each library's Long-Range
Plan be approved by their governing body.
New Business:
At a request by member Valerie Pleasanton, the starting time of the Board meetings was
adjusted to 3:15 pm.
Director's report:
PowerCard: September is National Library Card Sign up Month and this is being
incorporated and marketed as part of PowerCard initiative.
LSTA Grant: Described grant that was approved by the City Commission and
sent to State Library for their final approval.
Business Expo: The Library had a booth at the Boynton Beach Mall as part of the
Chamber's Business Expo. Good exposure for the Library and signed-up 24 borrowers.
Friends of the Library assisted in staffing the booth.
Portable Walls: Explained that Patricia Spoerri, the city's new professional
development manager would be housed in the library so office space was created in the
Reference area. At the same time, we also created a new space for small group,
library/city meetings, as the library is being requested to accommodate more and more
of the city's board and committee meetings.
Reserve Books: The library has increased the number of reserves from 2 titles at
one time to 4. Increase has been well received by the public.
Discard policy: Stated that staff was reviewing the library's policy concerning gifts
and discards.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:10 PM. The next Library Board meetings will be held on
October 25 and November 29 (Nov/Dec combined meeting), at 3:15 PM. in the Library.
Submitted by,
Alice Warren, Acting Secretary
Approved: October 25, 2000