Board meeting confirms bookstore move substantially complete

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HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
MINUTES: April 30, 2014
Meeting of Board of Directors
MEMBERS PRESENT: Robert Luthardt, Katherine Luthardt, Gillian Miller, Gabor
Kossuth, Marilyn Shaw, Toni Empringham and Carol Lawson. President Robert
Luthardt called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m. at the new Bard Street Bookstore.
MINUTES of the January 22, 2014 Meeting of the Board of Directors were approved as
submitted.
TREASURER'S REPORT: The Treasurer's Report for the period ending March 31,
2014 was approved as submitted. The Operating Balance as of 3/31/14 was $25,408.83.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT: The Librarian was not present at the meeting.
OPEN HOUSE REPORT: Marilyn reported that the Open House was a great success.
Attendance was good and a lot of books were sold. She suggested that we try to have
such an event twice a year.
BOOK STORE: The move to our new quarters is essentially complete. Thanks to
fantastic planning and construction of bookcases by Gabor, and many hours of hard work
by the other volunteers, the new place looks great. The Board extended many thanks to
all who contributed.
The new, smaller bookstore space reduces the number of books we can store and/or
display. The Board and other members were asked to investigate possible other entities
that would like to receive some of the books we are unable to sell. Some suggestions
were church missions, schools, other charitable organizations. We also would like to sell
(preferably) or give away the old dolly ($5), 6 banquet tables ($10 each) and the small
refrigerator ($35). All reasonable offers will be considered.
HISTORIAN: It was suggested that we need a historian to organize and find a home for
some the FOL memorabilia. Some suggestions were made, but no decision reached.
Gabor stated it was not urgent as there is still room for what we have. It was decided that
"Charlotte Malone's horn" would be hung on the wall of the Bookstore.
PRESIDENT'S PLAQUE: The FOL President's Plaque the Library needs to be updated.
Carol volunteered to do this when she returns from vacation in late May.
WEBSITE: Betty Starr, who works at Hermosa Valley School, has looked into
resuscitating our HBFOL.org website. She spoke to Prohosting which is the site host for
our current (although woefully out of date) website. She obtained permission from the
site and from Naoma Valdes, the former webmaster, for another FOL person to take over
the site. The cost is $179.50/year, plus an annual $14.95 for the domain name. The
domain name is paid through February 2015. Upon motion duly made by Toni and
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seconded by Gabor, Betty Starr was unanimously appointed Website Chairman, and $200
was allocated for the website. Carol Lawson (Assistant Treasurer) was authorized to
write a check for $179.50 to start this process.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at about 3:15 to the next meeting of the
Board of Directors on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol Lawson, Acting-Recording Secretary
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