Board meeting on summer attendance and bookstore move

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HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
MINUTES: July 24, 2013
Meeting of Board of Directors
Members Present: Howard Seeb, Gillian Miller, Gabor Kossuth, Marilyn Shaw, Dorothy Yost, Carol
Lawson, Toni Empringham, Bob Luthardt, Elmita Brown, and Diane Craig. President Howard Seeb called
meeting to order at 2:00 pm Bard Street Book Store.
Minutes of April 24, 2013 were approved as submitted.
Treasurer's Report: Operations status final report as of 6/30/13 was approved as submitted. The
operating balance as of 6/30/13 was $25,609.14.
Librarian's Report: Librarian, Elmita Brown, reported that the summer reading program had good
attendance. She reports that with the closing of the Manhattan Beach library Hermosa Library is getting
more customers. The county has given one extra full time staff person and one part time staff person to
handle the increase. There are 20 children in the summer reading program at this time. Donated
children's books that are in very good condition are put on shelves in the library for check out before
they are given to FOL. It was decided that the bulletin board at the Library should be posted with facts
of what FOL does with books and money donated to FOL. Marilyn Shaw volunteered to help with that.
Membership: We have added one or two new members but have also dropped a few people. The
newsletter cost us $600 three times a year. We discussed ways to keep membership benefits but also
save money. Toni volunteered to write up ideas and put together what we could do to set up
memberships starting in January, 2014.
Book Store: Gabor reported he is continuing to improve the layout of our new quarters in anticipation
of moving the bookstore in September.
Publicity: It was suggested that we could pay someone to start and update a web page for FOL. No
dollar amount was decided on but all offers would be considered.
New Business: Printing membership cards cost $60-65 per 500 cards. Suggestions and ideas on how to
save money on memberships will be studied by Toni Empringham and presented at our next meeting.
We received a $1000 grant from Don Knabe's office. Suggestions on how to spend it were asked for.
Members agreed the money should be used for the new bookstore and the motion carried. Candidates
for FOL office for 2014 are Bob Luthardt, President, Diane Craig, Secretary, George Ceman, Treasurer.
We still need a candidate for Vice President.
Meeting adjourned at 250pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Craig, Recording Secretary