Minutes of the January 2015 Meeting

MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF THE MERRICK LIBRARY TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 Karen A. Tusa opened the meeting at 4:35 PM. Present: Karen A. Tusa (President), Howard Schwartz (Vice President), Diane Christie (Treasurer), David R. Stayer (Secretary), Joan Sculli (Publicity Chair), Sandy Mintz, Ellen Firer (Library Director) and Art Sacharoff (Library Trustee.) Howard moved and Joan seconded that the December minutes be approved as distributed. The motion passed. Diane gave the report of the treasurer. Savings account $3,448.50 and checking account $143.48. Income since last meeting $494.03, comprised of Membership $305.00, raffle $86.00. better world books $102.18, interest $0.85. Expenditures mostly printing $607.58. Transfer of $300.00 from savings to checking account. Diane moved and David seconded the motion to approve the report of the treasurer. The motion passed. We will need to do an interim tax return and file our usual one for the fiscal year now beginning January 1 and ending December 31 on May 15th. The tax for the current fiscal year has been completed by Paul Tusa of Tusa and Associates CPA, PC. Committee reports: On December 16, 2014, fifty two letters for membership renewals were mailed Total membership 75. 38 have been received and 37 are outstanding. We will have a Friends table at various Library events. Starting on Sunday, January 25, 2015 at Maker Day. Several members have signed up as volunteers. A discussion of ideas to publicize the Friends was initiated and is ongoing. One was the purchase of childrens museum passes. We are considering sponsoring programs at the Library. We are seeking pressentors for programs including a possible lecture series. The West Babylon Library has a program of swapping books and other items. Howard reported that thus far 63 invitations have been sent out for our Craft Fair in May. We will be charging $20.00 per table paid by the participating vendors. We will seek food donations from local businesses to sell at the Fair. We will change the name to a Craft and Vendors Fair. The amendment of the Friends By-laws was moved by Howard and seconded by Sandy. The motion was approved. Sign for Maker Day is being displayed and the Library has been helpful in publicizing the Friends on its web site. The Friends will participate in the info & prep sessions on February 5, 9, or 10, 2015,at the Nassau Library headquarters. We will participate in the Library Advocacy Day trip on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 in Albany. Our next two meettings are Tuesday, February 10 and Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at the Merrick Library. The meetings begin at 4:30 PM. All Friends are invited to attend. The motion to adjourn was accepted. The meeting adjourned at 5:39 PM. Respectfully submitted David R. Stayer, LCSW-R