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MINUTES
March 8, 1990
The North Richland Hi11s Library Board met in the board room of the library
on March 8, at 7 p.m. Present were Poily Brinkley, Jan Daniels, Roxie Hamilton,
Alisa Wood, IC~y Schmidt, Bob Hardy, Arlita Hallam, and Brenda Lewis. Absent
were Jay Bradshaw and Clyde 2ellers.
Chairman Jan Daniels called the meeting to order. Roxie Hamilton moved, Polly
Brinkley seconded, and the motion carried to approve the minutes of the
February 15 meeting.
Library Director Arlita Ha11am shared the following:
The 1990-91 operating budget request of $729,772 was submitted to city
administration on M~rch 8. This amount represents a 21R increase over
the 1989-90 budget. Requests for decision package items are due on March 15.
Oder a thousand patrons are expected to be surveyed by the closing of
output measures week on March 10. Results will be compiled for statistical
comparisons.
In response from recent publicity on library m~terials per capita, a
patron plans to donate ~100,000 a year for the next five years to be
used for library materials. The patron stipulated that the donor remain
anonymous and that the funds be used to build a solid basic collection.
The donor is encouraging the city and business community to raise the
other $500,000 needed to meet the 3-books-per-capita standard for the
library collection.
City departments will be participating in planni.ng the festivities for
the Kaleidoscope of Homes to coincide with the Friends-of-the-Library-
sponsorEd old-fashioned fourth of July.
In honor of the library's 2Qth anniversary, the Board will sponsor a book
shower on the afternoon of June 9. At Jan Daniels' request, Kay Schmidt agreed
to coordinate the plans for this event. Polly Brinkley and Alisa Wood will
serve on the planning cammittee.
Jan Daniels reported that the Beautification Co~ittee will sponsor a"Trash
Off" on March 31. City boards/coimnissions will be competing against each
other to-help "clean up, green up, and beautify" NRH.
The next meeting was scheduled for April 26, at 6:30 p.m. This will be a
brief ineeting prior to the 7 p.m. "Night of a 1'housand Stars" Celebrity Poetry
Reading.
This meeting adjourned at 8 p.m.
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