(as submitted)
Members Present: Silvia Fleitz, Dana Petersen, Carolyn Smith, Tulli Kerstetter, Lee Hallberg
I. Call to Order: by Carolyn 7:01pm
II. Minutes of previous meeting: approved as read.
III. Proxie Votes: none
IV. Correspondence: none
V. Financial report: emailed by Laurie. The Dec and Jan reports were reviewed. Total balance all accounts is $3634.48. Approved as read. See full report here.
VIl. Librarian’s report: The year end mailing has generated over $13,000 to date. The Mill Levy committee has formed and had their first meeting. The library will have to stop taking book donations until we have a spring book sale. They library is applying for 501C3 status to help secure grant funding. A committee is meeting for planning for the Mancos Half Marathon which will be held on June 25th and will benefit the library. See full report here.
VIIl. Projects Summary:
A. Stanton Englehart note card sales: Carolyn spoke with the bakery about moving our cards to a more visible location.
B. Library Book Bags: A few have sold. We will give some away with larger purchases at the book sale.
lX. Old Business
A. donor bench/ table/ wall plaque: Nothing new since last meeting.
X. New Business
A. End of the year donations update: the Friends have received about $2290 in memberships and donations from the year end appeal.
B. Thoughts on the conference call with John at January meeting / Mill Levy additional information: Lee reports that the Friends will be contacted for help with volunteer activities and financial requests.
C. Plans for bake sale – Feb. 13th The sale will run from 8am to 3pm. Set up will begin on Fri Feb 12 3-5pm. We will organize and price items in the Sustainability room as the meeting room will be occupied.
D. Spring book sale – April 2nd
E. Funds request – Mancos Public Library Vote Yes! Committee donation, motion passed.
XI. Adjourn at 7:50 pm Next meeting: March 7, 2016