Month: January 2020

The meeting began at 6:36pm.

Treasurer’s Report

• Brenda submitted expenses that totaled to $69.78. It is for Post-Christmas shopping of $17.06 and Christmas cookies of $52.72.
• Barbara submitted expenses that totaled $128.97 for Post-Christmas shopping.

Secretary & Desktop Report

• Project Elf had been in partnership with the local police department. However, we will most likely no join efforts again for 2020.
• Post-Christmas Shopping tally:
  • Gift bags (wide) – 21
  • Gift bags (tall) – 33
  • Stockings – 25
  • Wall art – 4 packs
  • Giant gift bags – 6
  • Bike bags – 2
  • Pencils – 3 packs
  • Decorative mesh – 2 gold, 2 silver
  • Sticker gift tags – 6 packs
  • Metal door hangers for decorations – 2
  • Door knob hangers – 4
  • Candy cane wreath form – 2
  • Ornament hooks (green) – 2 packs
  • Paper gift boxes – 2
  • Gift card holders – 7 paper; 2 paper-XL; 2 metal
  • Gold/Silver ornament orbs – 2
  • Gold ribbon – 1 roll thick; 1 roll thin
  • Christmas decoration items – 3
  • Door cover – 1
  • Decorative bows (small) 2pk – 6
  • Garland – 4 red/silver; 4 white/gold; 2 gold
  • Gift wrap – 5 long; 32 short
• Undecorating the library – All Christmas items have been sorted and re-binned. All summer reading, Halloween, Fall, and Easter decorations have also been organized under the stairs.

Spring Book Sale

• The dates of the book sale are Thursday, March 26 through Saturday, March 28.
• The meeting date of March 14 will be the meeting and the beginning of the book sale setup.
• Road signs can be used once more.
• Advertise to consumers to bring their own bags and boxes for the book sale.

Library’s Report

• Christmas Tree Lighting
  • 6 coolers of hot chocolate were made; 1.5 coolers were discarded. 3 trays of cookies were left over.
  • Cookies slowed down the distribution of hot chocolate. Mary has suggested separating the stations.
  • Mary has raised concerns over the Boy Scouts involvement that delayed the distribution of the hot chocolate and cookies. Also, they overly restrictive numbers and messages caused a large left over over hot chocolate and cookies that resulted in being tossed at the end of the night.
  • Brenda has raised concerns that she did not want people bringing in full coolers of hot water due to safety. Once a new stove has been purchased for the library, this will no longer be necessary.
  • Mary suggested buying stanchion posts from the Friends fund to help with people organization at the library during events.
  • Brenda believes the municipality will pass the budget to get the library a new stove.
• Acenda is hosting a Back-to-School drive in August/September. We are supporting the efforts as well with small bags and accepting donations of stationary and school items.
• Summer Reading & Activities
  • This year’s summer theme is Fairytales, Mythology, and Fantasy.
  • The FOLL will decide on a weekly basis whether we will be providing side dishes and or/ desserts for Thursdays.
  • The Library is considering making the Thursday meals being given to families.

Meetings and Event Dates

• March meeting has been set for Saturday, March 14 from 11am to 12pm.

The meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm