2021 April 12 Business Meeting Minutes

DRAFT

April 12, 2021

Library Director Becky Fasulo, acting as facilitator due to the meeting being held in person and virtually, called the meeting to order at 7:01 PM.

Members present: Lloyd Murdoch, Jane Pingelski, Felicia Hopkins, Franklin Bennek, Sheri Welch, Cathy Lozier, Catherine Bailey (attended virtually after meeting started), and Librarian Rebecca Fasulo.

Minutes of the previous meeting: Minutes from the Jan. 11th meeting were read. A motion was made by Lloyd Murdoch and seconded by Cathy Lozier to accept the minutes. The motion was carried with all in favor.

Treasurer’s Report: The treasurer’s report was read and discussed. A CD that is due in April will be rolled over. A motion was made by Franklin Bennek and seconded by Jane Pingelski to approve all paid bills. The motion was carried with all in favor. A motion was made by Felicia Hopkins and seconded by Lloyd Murdoch to accept the treasurer’s report. The motion was carried with all in favor.

Librarian’s Report: The Librarian’s report was presented with highlights as follows:

SALS Annual Meeting will be held virtually this year on May 17
Two small book sales will take the place of the annual book sale at the end of July

See attachment for complete librarian’s report

A motion was made by Felicia Hopkins and seconded by Sheri Welch to accept the librarian’s report. The motion was carried with all in favor.

Old Business:

NYLA – Our first full year of organizational membership has been set up. We will be billed through SALS. NYLA is adding a trustee association section (Library Trustees Association LTA) – this would be an additional charge if we wanted to add it to our account.
Farm 2 Library – Started up again on April 1. It is going great so far. We changed the pickup day to Thursday when the library is open in order to make it easier on staff and volunteers to access the building. Jane Kribbs may be helping with pickups once a month when she is available. The Rockwell Falls Library in Luzerne has joined the program and we are alternating pickups with one person picking up for both libraries every other week. We may be able to get other volunteers to pick up food for us.
Harriet Hawley Miller Trust – There will probably be one more small payment coming when they close out the account.
Pandemic – By the end of April, both staff will be fully vaccinated. If there are no surges before then we will move on to Phase 4 of our plan. That is the final step before returning to “normal”. This will allow more space for browsing and we will allow use of the Children’s Room by appointment. We are now quarantining returns for 48 hours instead of 96. This may decrease or go away altogether soon as the CDC has decided the risk of transmission from objects is remote. Questions for when the pandemic is over: should we go back to charging overdue fines, or should we do away with them permanently as many libraries have? (Lost item and damage fines would remain as is) Should we continue with our COVID schedule of hours (taking away the reserved cleaning time and giving the public access for all hours) or revert to our old schedule? It is looking as though mask wearing and social distancing will continue to be important at least into the Fall. Becky sees there being a need to add another phase that would allow patrons full access to the building again, but necessitate us keeping masking and distancing rules in place as well as providing some safety measures for the computer area and for use at the tables.
Ramp – Was not redone last year as scheduled. Lloyd will check with the company about completing the work.

New Business:

JA Agreement – Approved and signed by board president, Franklin Bennek.
Paychex – Received proposal from Paychex to switch to them for payroll. Consensus was that it would not be worth the hassle to switch for the small decrease in cost to what we currently pay.
Policy Changes – Several policies were emailed in advance to board members to be reviewed with changes that are needed highlighted, and as such need to be approved.

Code of Ethics Statement

RESOLVED, By the Board of Trustees of the Corinth Free Library that the Code of Ethics Statement as presented, is hereby adopted.

Motion is made by:_Franklin Bennek and seconded by Sheri Welch.

Those in favor: Lloyd Murdoch, Jane Pingelski, Sheri Welch, Felicia Hopkins, Franklin Bennek, Cathy Lozier, Catherine Bailey

Those against: None