June 24, 2025

PRESENT: Jacqueline McGuire, Jacob Evans, Gloria Parkinson, and Francisco Ramos

STAFF: Director Marie Letarte

ABSENT: Jill Ashton, Marty Shaughnessy

PUBLIC COMMENT: No public comment

ELECTION OF OFFICERS:

Nomination for Chair: Gloria Parkinson
Nomination for Vice Chair: Tabled
Nomination for Treasurer: Jacob
Unanimous vote on slate presented. Chair and Treasurer approved.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

Motion to accept: FR, seconded: JM
No discussion
Minutes were approved.
Jacob abstained.

LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT REPORT:

• Promotional materials and talking points have been developed by Project Manager staff
• Meeting with Bill Connelly, member of the Selectboard, took place before the elections on June 2^nd, 2025 to discuss procedures & process for garnering project support
• All promotional materials about the CMS construction project were sent to Megan Tuttle, (from the OPM), for review and as models for the library project
• Our role is to make sure that everyone knows this is happening
  – We need to create a ripple effect
  – Share the information with 5 or more people each
  – Organize presentations at churches or other organizations
  – After receiving electronic versions of the documents, we can share them through social media and email
  – We don’t know what is happening exactly but something is definitely happening
  – 5 talking points distributed to Trustees

INTERMISSION TO PARTICIPATE IN Permanent Building Committee MEETING
6:30 pm

RETURN TO THE BOT MEETING:
7:15 pm

Because of a potential conflict with the OPM meeting and the scheduling of their meetings the Board decided to change the time of the BOT meetings to 5:00 pm hybrid.

July 22^nd – August 26^th – September 23^rd  Future dates TBD

DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Received a grant from the CHNA9 in the amount of $300.00

Discussion about closing on Saturday, July 5^th. Vote was tied. The status quo remains

Marie will hire Alek DeLeon again this year for library outreach riding the bike

We got a new website three months ago. We will go with the lower priced plan for monthly hosting of the website: $29.95 vs. $129.95.

The Friends of the Library gave the library a $5,000 donation, as they do every year, but this year it was for the library improvement grant. We need to send a Thank You card

CONCERTS IN THE PARK

Outreach and promotion of Improvement Project

July 1^st                 –              Gloria

July 8^th                 –              Marie

July 15^th              –              Marie

July 22^nd             –              Jacob

July 29^th              –              Jacqueline

August 6^th         –              Jacqueline

August 12^th      –              Jacob

August 19^th      –              Marie

August 26^th      –             

REVISION OF BY-LAWS

The Board decided not to pursue changing the By-Laws

Adding Zoom to accessing the meetings will add flexibility to building a quorum

LETTER ABOUT THE FEDERAL CUTS

Marie and Gloria will develop a draft of the letter and will circulate it with the Board for review

Ask for action: Contact our legislators to restore funding

ADJOURNMENT  8:20 pm