Board meeting sets prices and elects 2013 officers

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HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
MEETING OF NOVEMBER 14. 2012
Members Present: B. Luthardt, G. Miller, T. Empringham, C. Lawson, G. Ceman, M. Shaw, E. Brown, G.
Kossuth, H. Seeb, D. Craig
Meeting called to order at 2 pm by Bob Luthardt. Minutes of meeting on July 18, 2012 were approved.
Treasurer's report as of first three quarters 2012 was approved. Treasurer report operating balance as
of September 30, 2012 was $13,402.83.
OLD BUSINESS: Kent Winsen no longer involved with volunteer work for FOL. George Ceman will write
a letter to the Gazin family thanking them for their ongoing contributions to the FOL fund. Toni
Empringham will deliver the letter as a personal gesture. The ordering of bookstore paper or plastic
bags is being deferred until a greater need arises. If anyone has extra paper bags to donate, the
bookstore needs them. Toni offered to put a notice in the next FOL newsletter. There is no new news
of possible move of FOL to another location. Toni talked to Tom Thompson and he mentioned "maybe
in a year". The police are in no apparent rush. There was no decision on whether to keep or discard old
archive files. Decision will be made when and if we need to down size.
It was agreed that Toni should go through with mailing postcards for next years sale dates. We all
agreed on three newsletters like last year at a cost of $190. Gabor will order bookmarks reflecting the
third Saturday sales at FOL. March, August and November will be the newsletter mailings and FOL
board meetings will be Jan. 23, April 24, July 24, and November 20, 2013.
NEW BUSINESS: The Vesta Bruner Scholarship Foundation Fund Raising event will be Thursday,
December 13, 2012 and a part time library staff member will be given financial assistance through this
scholarship. Elmita has asked FOL for a donation of $50. It was approved and Carol Lawson
volunteered to buy the gift card before December 13, 2012.
The Trinity Healthy Class Vegetarian Cooking Class needs a donation of $80 from FOL which will take
place on December 8, 2012. This was voted on and approved.
The library DVD rental program was discussed. The DVD's should be paying for themselves. Several
DVD's have been purchased which are not popular and are not paying for themselves. One suggestion
was to limit the DVD's to top ten only. Another suggestion was to raise the rental fee from $1.00 to
$2.00. Elmita said the latest DVD's are very important to the library and only the top 10 are chosen,
one of each. We decided to monitor how many times a DVD is rented and if it pays for itself,. with the
help of Michael at the library. We also decided to keep the DVD program and raise the rental cost from
$1.00 to $1.50 effective January 1, 2013.
Book prices at our bookstore will be raised as of January 1, 2013. Paperbacks will be $.50 and hardbacks
$1.00. All members present at meeting approved increase.

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ELECTIONS: Board members were elected for 2013 as follows:
Howard Seeb, President, Bob Luthardt, Vice President, Diane Craig, Secretary, George Ceman, Treasurer.
January 23, 2013 will be FOL's next board meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 4 pm
Respectfully Submitted,
D. Craig, Recording Secretary