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July Board Meeting
July 6, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Call to order: 6:50 p.m.
Members present: Gary Pohl, Monique Musick, Mindy Gallagher, James Rogan, Syrilyn Tong, Deirdre Helfferich
Approval of old minutes- Motion to adopt- Gary. Second- Monique. All approve
Approval of Agenda – Adopt: Monique. Second:Gary. All approve
Finance Committee Report
Committee Update – written report, finance reports
Reviewed/discussed by board
- Gary donated a check toward general funds.
- Total garage sale revenue $179 (including two memberships)
- Signers at Denali AK FCU and Mt. McKinley Bank
- Amanda filed and submitted IDs at both banks
- Amanda has a safety deposit box key
- Other key in secure storage
CRS 2016 Completion Budget
Board reviewed expense report. Motion – Approve CRS expense report- Monique. Second – ST. All Approved
Membership roster – Start from October 2015 – update from there
New Passive House paperwork – Gary will take the Notice of Right to Lien and file copy with Stantec records
Grants Committee Report
- Grants Committee Update
Grant spending update- Deirdre $62,257.81 remaining
New bill from Stantec- $362.25Committee has not met re grant applications etc. but busy on phase one
- Update: Phase 1 Project Status
Contractor is working on utilidor project at Eielson
Have entered necessary submittals
Still need to submit Schedule of Values and Project Schedule
Working to pinpoint date - Project record keeping
- Groundbreaking and schedule: Week of July 25
- Coordinate with the Tape and Tarp – make both a bigger party!
Suggested date June 30 – potential conflict with Anderson Music Festival - Coordinate marketing
James- suggest notifying insurance that construction will begin
Facilities Committee Report
Clausen Cabin Update:
- Not much change since last board meeting
- Need electrical finished before other projects
- Need to hire an electrician – prioritize projects that require an electrician
- Andrew Hunt’s original estimate was 50-hrs. at $65 for ~$3250
We have electrical drawings – procurement policy suggest 3 estimates and determine availability - Contact Behr Electric for another estimate
- Lets get going with the process
- Gary can contact Darshan, discuss plans etc.
Work Completed since last board meeting:
- Items hauled to garage sale
- Joe Geiss and Jimmy Miller cleaned up “Anscar’s yard” before the Fourth of July
Next Steps:
- Balance of electrical: Need a new electrician
- Secure new floor beams in place and adjust post bases
- Build out new office and bathroom
- Relocate Monitor stove and fuel tank
- Handicapped ramp
- Insulate under floor
- Removal and sale of wood cook stove
- Demo and reconfigure kitchen area
Call for Volunteers: All of the next steps will require volunteers with appropriate skills and tools for the respective tasks.
Prioritize pre-winter projects: heat, moving fuel, foaming door
Monique will breech fuel tank moving with Scott and others
Deirdre can paint back door to match front
Collections Report
Grabbed three loads from the Chris Guinn collection – there are still a bunch at his house, will we be taking them all? When?
Most books are good/excellent quality or salable
Need to coordinate another load – James will ask when
Other Business
- Fund raising events:
- Tape and Tarp at Malemute
Include the ground breaking
6:30 groundbreaking
Deirdre – will come up with invitations for special guests
Monique will coordinate “groundbreaking” event
7 – 10 Tape and Tarp
Music – Skidmarks? Cotton Ginny? Others?
Costumes (prizes)
Suggested donation $15 – $10 in costume
Items for raffle/auction – tickets/brown bags
Decorations
Let’s meet to finalize – July 13 – 6:45 - Sale of tub and woodstove
Mo will follow up on sell sheet - LiBerry Music Festival
- Tape and Tarp at Malemute
- Other Items
- board email addresses
Bluehost has emails – for generic use
Send login info via email - bulletin board at post office/ poster needed
Deirdre drafted a poster – received some feedback
Will update and modify
Will move JTEL goals to the post office board - TinyCat
Program created by Librarything – simplified library software
Track circulation, availability, book requests
We have 6,800+ books entered in our catalog
Tinycat limits at 20,000 items
Data can be exported when larger collections needs exist
We have it free currently
Beginning July 1 it would cost $10 a month
Deirdre will e-mail us information on reviewing the interface
Next meeting August 3