Hooksett Public Library

Board of Trustees

January 12, 2004

Minutes

Present: Marion Jacobi, President, Mary Farwell, Secretary, Ann Marie Van De Water, Treasurer, Fran Hebert, Library Director

Secretary's Report: Minutes from the December 12, 2003 meeting were approved.

Treasurer's Report: Not available

Library Director's Report:

• Security panel on the Alarm System "fried" over the holidays and had to be replaced at a cost of approximately $700.
• FH to meet with Ann Daigle on January 13 about presenting a workshop for women on Taking Control of Your Finances. Fee for the workshop would be $15 to cover materials. FH reports positive feedback from other libraries where she has presented this seminar. FH will get information from Ann about her qualification to present such material.
• Circulation report was distributed

Old Business:

• AED: Kathy Raymond of CMC is still waiting for the cardiac group to decide on a training schedule.
• IES; Town Administrator signed the paperwork on December 31. IES to start work to complete the gaps in the Oak Point Study. John Karpinski will be picking up the laminated copies of the blueprints.
• Fire Alarm Monitoring: - We will be responsible for paying for our portion of the costs to have the building monitored. MJ to follow up
• Rear Parking Lot: Wes is out of work due to an injury so this item will be deferred until spring.
• Furnace/ Boiler: Delta is working to correct the situation. (After the meeting MJ called Dave from Delta to get more information about what happened with the valve and the inspection. The person who actually did the inspection was Christopher Bartz from Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance. He found the problem with the valve on the boiler. As it was the boiler that was replaced last year, MJ asked Dave why there was a problem with the size of the safety valve. When Delta replaced the boiler last year, they replaced all the other parts with the same size, style, etc that was on the boiler originally. So we have had the wrong size valve since the boiler was originally retrofitted during the building renovation. As Dave was waiting for a callback from Mr. Bartz from 12/29 to 1/8, the correct part wasn't ordered until last week. It is now in stock and will be installed at the library later this week. Once everything is installed Mr. Bartz will come back out to the library to reinspect, and make sure everything is ok)
• Computer classes: Homework Classes will be taught on February 10 and February 17th. Rest of schedule is not yet available
• Trustees would like staff job descriptions updated prior to the end of the fiscal year.

New Business:

• Budget to be presented to Town Council on Wednesday, January 14. MF to present with MJ as backup. The trustees discussed the serious financial situation of the town and made further cuts to the budget as follows so as to present a very austere budget. The cuts are as follows:

  	Old	New
  Building maintenance supplies	1,100	980
  Books	40,000	39,000
  Automation	13,000	12,000
  Programs	1,000	5
  Equipment	5,000	2,500

• MF representing the library on the wage and benefits study group. Nothing to report at this time

The next meeting of the Trustees will be February 10 at 9 AM