CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by President John Hunziker. Also attending were Mohammad Babur, Dan Berndt, Cynthia Daube, Don de Keyrel, Ann Farnell, Ed Haskell, Scott Heck, Frank Iossi, Phil Karsell, Sue Reinke, Joyce Wenz, and Trevor Westrom
Others Present: Tom Dyer, Communications Director; Kathy Olson, Administrative Assistant.
MINUTES
Frank Iossi moved, Ed Haskell second to approve the meeting minutes from April 23, 2003. Motion approved.
LIBRARY BOARD AND DIRECTOR'S ITEMS
The Supreme Court has voted to uphold the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Tom has given several interviews to local media regarding this decision. RPL believes it is in compliance with CIPA, although staff will be reviewing our Internet Policy and talking with the City Attorney to determine what, if any, course of action to take. If a library is not in compliance with CIPA, it would lose Federal funding. Rochester Public Library receives very little direct Federal funding, but some Federal funds are used to pay for statewide projects. We currently have filtering turned on the Internet terminals in the children's and young adult areas, but not on the Internet terminals in the Reference area.
The Friends of the Library had a very successful garage sale and silent auction during Rochesterfest and raised about $5,200.
The County Board has cut library funding by $74,000 for the 2003 budget. The City Administrator had previously indicated that the library would need to cut $240,000 from its 2003 budget. The Library Board has been discussing how to handle the cuts to this year's budget and also next year's budget.
Ken Brown will be the County Board representative on the Foundation Board for several months until the special election to fill the Board seat held by Jean Michaels.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Development Committee
We are in the process of preparing the mailing for the annual fund drive. Kathy has spent 40+ hours updating the database. Board members were asked to go through the mailing list and select names that they would be willing to write personal notes on and also names to make personal contacts to rather than mailing.
The Board reviewed the solicitation letter and brochure. It was recommended that affiliations be added with Board member names. Tom will contact Board members to determine how they want their affiliations listed.
Sue stated that the letter covers two separate issues: the annual fund drive and how budget cuts could affect the library. It was also noted that we want to emphasize that the Mayo grant is a "challenge" grant, and also the letter should be made to fit on one page. Staff will rewrite the letter to make take out references to budget cuts and e-mail the letter to Board members for final comments.
The Board discussed what dollar amounts should be listed on the brochure. The consensus was to use $1000, $500, $250, $100, other.
Special Events
The committee will send out some preliminary information on Wit, Wisdom & Wine 2004 before the August Board meeting.
The next meeting will be August 27, 2003, at 4:45 p.m. in Meeting Room B at the library.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Olson
Secretary Pro Tem