OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MINUTES

March 12, 2002

Members Present:

Mr. Ted Hess, Mr. Tom Stephan, Sr. Mary Jude Jochum, Dr. Charles Julian, Miss Sally Carroll.

Members Absent:

None, but Mr. Stephan arrived late.

Also Present:

Dottie Thomas, Director; Louis Horacek, Assistant Director, Shelley Garrison, Intelligencer reporter.

Call to order:

Mr. Hess called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M.

Minutes

Dr. Julian moved that the minutes of the February meeting be approved as distributed. Sr. Mary Jude seconded the motion.

Vote:

Mr. Hess	yes
Mr. Stephan	absent
Sr. Mary Jude	yes
Dr. Julian	yes
Miss Carroll	yes

Financial Report:

The financial report was presented.

INVOICES AND WARRANTS

Sr. Mary Jude moved to approve the financial report and approve payment of invoices and warrants; Dr. Julian seconded the motion.

Vote:

Mr. Hess	yes
Mr. Stephan	absent
Sr. Mary Jude	yes
Dr. Julian	yes
Miss Carroll	yes

DIRECTOR'S REPORT

Ms. Thomas’ written Directors Report was included in the Board packet mailed to members. (Attachment #1)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ms. Thomas noted that she would be attending a workshop in Zanesville on personnel issues sponsored by the Ohio Library Council.

Ms. Thomas said that the State Auditor’s Office had announced that they would be doing our audit instead of a private firm, but that the situation was still unsettled and that the library had not received any official communications to date.

Dr. Julian announced that the Ebscohost magazine database can be accessed from the WVLC home page by anyone with a West Virginia library card.

Mr. Hess said that he had received letters from area legislators: Gil White, Ray Givens, Andy McKenzie, and Ed Bowman.

OLD BUSINESS

Mr. Horacek presented a draft internet use policy that would comply with the requirements of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Neighborhood Children’s Internet Protection Act (N-CIPA). (see attachment #2)

Dr. Julian moved to approve the policy a s the library’s draft policy that can be copied and distributed to the public and will be further refined after a public hearing on the draft policy. Mr. Stephan seconded the motion.

Vote:

Mr. Hess	yes
Mr. Stephan	yes
Sr. Mary Jude	yes
Dr. Julian	yes
Miss Carroll	yes

Ms. Thomas is to bring recommendations concerning a date for the public hearing on the new Internet Policy to the next meeting.

Legislative Issues

Dr. Julian and Ms. Thomas reported on visits to the legislators. None of the bills detrimental to special dedicated funding laws for public libraries had reached the floor of the legislature. Ms. Thomas distributed a report from Finance Subcommittee A, 2001 Legislative Interim Session, which seemed to indicate, as Mr. Hess noted, that there had actually been a Senate Resolution a year ago which appeared to call for eliminating special funding laws.

Ms. Thomas said that there had recently been a serious blockage of the sewer pipe from the building, and that there had been several others over the past few years. A. E. Pelley had been called in and had examined the pipe with a video camera and recommended replacing a section of the pipe under the driveway entrance, and installing a manhole and backwater valve (the existing backwater valve had been found to be broken). The cost would be $10,400.

Dr. Julian moved to proceed with the work. Sr. Mary Jude seconded the motion.

Vote:

Mr. Hess	yes
Mr. Stephan	yes
Sr. Mary Jude	yes
Dr. Julian	yes
Miss Carroll	yes

Laser Printer

Ms. Thomas said that the need for an additional laser printer, primarily for office work, had become apparent as the existing inkjet printers were very slow for big jobs, and the public printer was too heavily used by the public to be tied up with internal printing tasks.

Mr. Julian moved that one be purchased, the cost not to exceed $650. Mr. Stephan asked for more details on the printer’s uses. Mr. Julian agreed to table his motion until more information was supplied.

Mr. Julian said that in light of the big expense involved in the sewer maintenance work, that consideration of computer purchases be postponed. He moved to table the consideration. Miss Carroll seconded.

Vote:

Mr. Hess	yes
Mr. Stephan	yes
Sr. Mary Jude	yes
Dr. Julian	yes
Miss Carroll	yes

Spring Fling and National Library Week

Ms. Thomas said that National Library Week would be the third week in April, and that the Annual Book Sale would be April 14-20.

She said that she, Mr. Horacek, and Children’s Dept. staff Bonnie McCloskey and Nettie McClure would be attending Spring Fling April 4 and 5.

Mr. Stephan asked if the maintenance staff would consider how to darken the weathered slate around the building to match the new slate that had recently been installed.

The meeting adjourned at 8:30 P.M.