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January Library Minutes

June 01, 2010 by Clerk

January Minutes

MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LINDENWOLD LIBRARY HELD AT 310 EAST LINDEN AVENUE, LINDENWOLD, NEW JERSEY, JANUARY 7, 2010.



Advisory Board Members (hereafter know and referred to as “the Board”) present at the commencement of the meeting:

ATTENDEES: 1 0 Carol Chillock, President
2 1 Suzanne Petrella, Vice President
3 1 Kenneth Fairbanks, Secretary
4 1 Christian Rasmussen
5 0 Louis Pecoraio
6 1 Yolanda Smith
7 1 Andrew Rodgers

Also present:

8 1 Brenda Roach, Library Supervisor
9 0 Mayor, Frank DeLucca, Borough Council Liaison

Attendees constitute a majority and quorum of the Advisory Board necessary for the transaction of business.

The Advisory Board meeting was called to order by Presiding Officer, Kenneth Fairbanks, at 7:11P.M., January 7, 2010.

The first order of business was to swear in the attending Board Members to a new term. These Members are as follows: Suzanne Petrella, Kenneth Fairbanks, and Christian Rasmussen. The Board welcomed the son of longtime Member, John Rodgers as a new Member. Andrew Rodgers was sworn in to his first term as well.

The next order of business was to nominate and vote for the 2010 officers of the Advisory Board. Encumbent Carol Chillock was nominated for another term as President. All Members present voted “yea” for Ms. Chillock to repeat in her current position. Christian Rasmussen nominated Suzanne Petrella for Vice-President. Following Ms. Smith’s second, Ms. Petrella was unanimously confirmed. Kenneth Fairbanks was nominated and was voted to repeat his position as Recording Secretary with the only dissenting vote being that of Mr. Fairbanks himself. Finally, Ms. Roach informed the Board that the Borough’s Mayor, Frank DeLucca, will be the new Borough Council Liaison.

The minutes from the December meeting were reviewed. Ms. Smith motioned and Ms. Petrella seconded to accept the minutes. The motion was carried.




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LIBRARIAN REPORT: Brenda Roach submitted the Librarian’s Report for the month of December, 2009, a complete copy of which is attached and incorporated herein for reference.

Circulation: for both books and video/DVD’s totaled 924.

Computer usage: Due to a year end Cybrary computer usage management software system glitch, the computer usage (i.e.: login) numbers were unavailable at the time of the meeting.

New library members: There were a total of 23 for the month, of whom 5 were minors and 18 were adults. There are 3,838 patrons of the Library altogether.

Combined revenue: The total submitted to the Borough was $146.00 for the month of December and totaled $2806.00 for the entire year of 2009. These monies were obtained from the collection of late fines, copy fees, printer charges, etcetera.

State aid: The Total balance of $7950.14 remains available, of which $4544.14 (from 2008) must be utilized by the end of 2010.

New Materials: In December ninety (90) new materials were purchased, while the total for the calendar year of 2009 was 2,755. There are 14,118 various materials in the Library to date.


OVERDUE ORDINANCE: Pursuant to the overdue library materials ordinance forty (40) final delinquent letters were mailed.

OLD BUSINESS: The two new chairs for the Library Clerks and the updated telephone system that were approved at the December meeting were received.

NEW BUSINESS: Discussion of spending 2010 State Aid yielded no motions. Ms. Smith suggested the possiblity of the Library sponsering a poster drawing contest for each of Lindenwold’s Elementary Schools? Further there was a discussion of purchasing and planting a Linden tree for Arbor Day and Mr. Rodgers suggested the sponsorship of a job fair. There was no other new business.

The Meeting was adjourned at 8:28P.M. after Kenneth Fairbanks made the motion to adjourn and Mr. Rasmussen seconded.





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