Board meeting changes membership fees and discusses reseller payments

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HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
MARCH 16, 2016
MEETING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEMBERS PRESENT: Howard Seeb, Gabor Kossuth, Toni Empringham, Sue Delacamp, George Ceman,
Gillian Miller, Marilyn Shaw, Betty Starr, Catherine Gazin, Mercedes Santos (ACLM), Diane Craig
Meeting called to order at 2:30pm. November 18, 2015 minutes approved as submitted.
Our president requested our secretary to email a copy of current minutes to all members attending each
meeting
FINANCIAL REPORT: Treasurer will be keeping an updated copy of the spread sheet containing all
incoming and outgoing revenues for each quarter. It will be located at the Bard Street bookstore and
available upon request. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact George, our
treasurer.
HB LIBRARY REPORT: Our Acting Library Manager, Mercedes Santos, informed us about the Beach Cities
Read. During the month of April, the Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Hermosa Beach Public
Libraries invite everyone to read PLASTIC OCEAN by Captain Charles Moore and join at events that will
be held at the libraries and community. Also there will be a Hermosa Cinema Society event on April 21st
called The Transparentsea Voyage Movie Screening. It will be held at the HB Community Center. A
complete schedule of events from April 12 to April 30 is located at each library or online at:
colapublib.org/beachcitiesread.
On Saturday, April gth all open Community Libraries of the County of Los Angeles will have a used book
sale.
Our Hermosa library has requested permission to raise the prices of DVD rentals to $2.50 for three
nights and $1.50 for two nights. It was voted on and approved
OPERATIONS: Gabor reported that our water leak at the bookstore has been fixed by the city. The
quality of books received from donations has gone down and sometimes it takes two months to get
enough books for Josh to come out to look at.
WEB PAGE: Memberships, donations and paypal has been contacted. We have the link. It was
discussed that if you donate you automatically become a member of FOL until future notice. We are
also on Facebook.
MEMBERSHIP: Toni suggested raising our membership fees since we are low compared to other FOL. A
motion was made to raise the fees to $10/single, $25/family, $50/patron, $500/lifetime. The motion
passed. If anyone would like to add information to the newsletter, please contact Toni.

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COMMUNICATION PLANS: Documents explaining the FOL purpose and what we do is completed and
will be going to the printers. The brochures will then need to be distributed to as many places as
possible. For example, the Garden Club, Community Center, Farmers Market, City Hall, etc. We hope
this will bring in more business to the FOL.
It was mentioned by Gillian that she needs help picking up donated books when she gets a phone call.
Several members including Sue, George, Catherine Gazin and myself said we would be backups if she
needed assistance.
We discussed our arrangement with Josh, our internet book buyer. He has suggested paying for the
books he takes from us immediately instead of on consignment. The members agreed but wanted
more information and George said he would talk with Josh and get back with us. If the numbers looked
good it was decided to approve Josh's idea of paying up front for the books that he takes. Final decision
was to be left up to bookstore manager.
Next meeting July 20, 2016 at Community Center, 2:30pm, Room 4
Meeting adjourned at 3:45pm
D. Craig, Recording Secretary