HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-08-02 MinutesBoard of Trustees Meeting
Fayetteville Public Library
August 2, 1990
Present: Board Members Camilla Crouch, Bobbye Hay, Foster Park,
Carol Phillips; Library Director Linda Harrison; Ozarks
Regional Library Director Karen Duree; Fayetteville
Library staff member June Jefferson
President Bobbye Hay called the special meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.
Library Director Harrison announced that she has been told that the City
will handle any request from the County for approval in vacating the
alley west of the MedArk Building. After a request to the Library Board
from the County to use the MedArk Building parking lot for temporary
piling of construction dirt, it was agreed: that the City is again the
proper authority for such pe :gyp scion.
In returning to the 1991 budget the Board noted some savings in
expenditures, including that of salary of a half-time clerk position
to be vacated early in the fall and not to be replaced. The Library
staff presented two additional optional budgets to the four already
before the Board, budgets that anticipate Saturday Library closing.
Members of the Board expressed, extreme reluctance to approve either
Saturday closing of the Library or a barely minimum $20,000 book
expenditure for 1991.
After considerable discussion of possible options, a motion by Carol
Phillips, seconded by Camilla Crouch, that we submit the budget under
option # 2, adjusted for reductions involved in the late spring
occupangrof the MedArk Building and with other possible minor elimi-
nations of expenses, was approved unanimously. Such a budget would
total approximately $490,000 and necessitate approximately $90,000
of additional funding, presumably from the City. The Board recognizes
that this falls-Oubgddt negotiations with the City may not allow us to
maintain all of the services we prefer to keep. Secretary Park and
President Hay will write a letter of explanation to accompany the
budget, emphasizing cuts that would be needed to keep within the City's
"target" budget support of the Library.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:25 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Foster Park, Secretary