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OrR <br />Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes RECEWED <br />oWN CLERK <br />AD[NG. MASS. <br />Board - Committee - Commission.- Council: 1113 DEC .9 P S' <br />Board of Library Trustees <br />Date: 2013 -11 -21 Time: 7:00 PM <br />Building: Reading Public Library Location: Meeting Room <br />Address: 64 Middlesex Avenue <br />Purpose: General Business Session: General Session <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />David Hutchinson, Acting Chair; Alice Collins, Secretary; Cherne Dubois, <br />Andrew Grimes, Vicki Yablonsky, Ruth Urell, Director <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Ben Tafoya, Selectman, Amy Lannon, Assistant Library Director <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Amy Lannon, Assistant Library Director <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Approval of Minutes <br />• Motion: To approve Minutes of September 30, 2013 and October 10, 2013 [Joint meeting with <br />Library Building Committee] (Vicky Yablonsky / Andrew Grimes) <br />• Vote: Unanimous approval. <br />Board of Library Trustees Vacancy <br />A copy of the Board of Library Trustees vacancy has been posted at Town Hall. The Town is required to <br />have the vacancy posted for at least 15 days, during which interested parties may submit an application. <br />Mr. Tafoya recommended sending out a release to local media. Trustees also requested that the vacancy <br />notice be posted in the RPL and on the library website. The posting was not available on the Town <br />website as of Monday, October 21. Library staff will follow up on the release, library posting and request <br />that the Town provide electronic version on the Town website as well. With this type of vacancy, <br />interested individuals are typically required to send a letter of application to designated party. These <br />applicants are then interviewed at a public meeting. The public meeting will be ajoint meeting of the <br />Board of Library Trustees and the Board of Selectman. The successful candidate will require 6 of the 10 <br />Possible votes and will fill the vacancy only until the next Town election. At that thee, the position must <br />be filled by a town vote for the remainder of the term — in this case 2 years (expiring in 2016). <br />• Motion to pursue convening joint meeting with Board of Selectman to interview applicants for the <br />Board of Library Trustees vacancy (Cherrie Dubois / Andrew Grimes) <br />• Vote: Unanimous approval <br />Page I r <br />