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Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes <br />s'f5: /NCO4p�P <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Board of Library Trustees <br />Date: 2015 -12 -14 <br />Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center <br />Address: 49 Pleasant Street <br />Purpose: <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Time: 7:00 PM <br />Location: Lounge Room <br />Session: General Session <br />TOWN CLERK <br />RE NCI NG. Mr%SS. <br />jWII P2=43 <br />Vicki Yablonsky, Chair; John Brzezenski, Vice Chair; Alice Collins; Secretary; <br />Cherrie Dubois; Andrew Grimes; David Hutchinson <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Vanessa Alvarado, FINCOM; Ruth Urell, Library Director; Amy Lannon, <br />Assistant Library Director <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Alice Collins <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />I. Call to Order 7:07 pm <br />II. Approval of Minutes <br />Motion to approve minutes from November 19, 2015 ( Cherrie Dubois / Alice Collins) <br />Vote: Unanimous <br />III. Financial Report (Ms. Urell) <br />In general, the library budget is on track for the year, with notable exceptions of the <br />library substitutes and supplies budgets that are over 50% expended. No further <br />discussion. <br />IV. Friends Report: (Ms. Dubois) <br />Friends of the Reading Public Library are beginning formal planning for the House <br />Tour scheduled for May 2015. There are twelve houses selected for the theme <br />"Renovate." <br />V. Foundation Report (Mr. Brzezenski) <br />The Foundation had a regularly scheduled business meeting Thursday, December 11. <br />They issued their annual appeal letter and response has been very positive, with one <br />large gift and slightly higher than average individual responses. The RPL Foundation <br />will have more to report on after the December meeting. Ms. Urell also noted that <br />she attended the meeting and the Foundation has given a small gift for 2015, with <br />plans for a more substantive gift in 2016 with the opening of the new building. <br />VI. Building Update (Mr. Hutchinson) <br />The joint meeting update of the Library Building Committee and the Board of <br />Selectmen has been postponed until January 2016. The most recent time line <br />update indicates that the building construction should be done by April 2016 instead <br />of March. Also the site work is very slightly delayed with an anticipated completion <br />Page 1 1 <br />