Minutes 10-26-16 CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH
Boynton Beach City Library
Library Advisory Board Minutes
October 26, 2016
The Library Advisory Board meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m.by Barbara McGee, Chair. Board members
Lesha Roundtree,Kerry-Ann Fletcher,D'ette Mathews, and Barbara Wineberg were absent. New member
Christopher Montague was introduced and welcomed. Approval of the meeting minutes from September 28,2016
was tabled until the December meeting..
Correspondence: D'ette Mathews called—she is sick and will miss the meeting.
Public Audience: Olive Mills,443 Cheyenne Drive,Boynton Beach,Fl. Olive requested the board consider her
request to receive the original damaged book she paid to replace. Although the policy specifically states that the
damaged book remains the property of the library,the board agreed to let Olive keep the damaged book after
paying the$2 processing fee. The board tabled discussion of changes to the Damaged Materials policy until a
future meeting.
Chair's Report: None.
Unfinished Business: Craig Clark,Library Director, stated that the library is fully staffed at this point.Library
statistics for September 2016 were distributed and discussed. It was noted that September library usage was down
over the previous year in all categories measured except for computer usage and adult programming. Craig also
distributed the Unique Management Services report noting$16638 have been received thus far in addition to
returned materials.
Craig shared information about the Online Career High School offered by the State Library which allows people
who dropped out to get a regular high school diploma online. The first scholarship has been awarded to a city
employee. There are three additional interested people. Michael Still,our third AmeriCorps person started
recently and works with teens.
New Business: Craig announcing the upcoming Read for the Record program coming on Oct.27`h. Boynton has
had great success with this program. Mayor Grant will read to local students along with other city staffers.The
Food for Families food drive will begin November 1S`. For each nonperishable food item donated,the library will
remove$1.00 in fines from the patrons account. The food collected will be donated to the Community Caring
Center of Boynton Beach. The board decided to discuss a general amnesty day at the December meeting. Craig
reported there was no new information on the café,but he thought the Community Caring Center might prepare a
proposal for the space.Tracey mentioned patron parking issues during Pirate Fest and Craig reminded us that the
library lots are public parking for all city events.
Library Director's Report: Craig distributed and reviewed the monthly report for September 2016. The board
requested that the number of Facebook Page Likes be reported with the monthly statistics. Craig thanked Chris
Montague for picking up the trash left by kids who threw out some flyers. Chris also volunteered to work with
staff regarding a possible Song Writing contest.
Barbara reminded the board about the meeting date change for the November and December meetings. The
combined Nov/Dec library board meeting is December 7,2016 at 4:00 p.m. in the meeting room. The meeting
was adjourned at 5:05pm.
Valerie Pleasanton, Secretary
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