April 2015 Meeting

FRIENDS OF THE MERRICK LIBRARY MINUTES OF MEETING April 14, 2015 Karen Tusa opened the meeting at 4:30 PM. Present: Karen Tusa (President), Howard Schwartz (Vice President), Diane Christie (Treasurer), Marion Ormsten (Correspondence Chair), Art Sacharoff (Library Trustee), Ellen Firer (Library Director), and Sandra Mintz. The previously emailed minutes were reviewed. Howard moved and Sandra seconded their acceptance as submitted. The motion passed. Diane gave the treasurer’s report: savings $4,690.37, checking $293.48. Income: membership $90.00, raffle, $65.00, tote bags $12.00, craft fair $40.00, book sale $246.65, interest $.97. Income total was $454.62. Expense total was $10.00 for printing Panera flyers. Diane moved acceptance of the report and Howard seconded. The motion passed. Karen gave the membership report. There are 51 current membership comprised of 47 renewals and 4 new memberships. There are 2 pending renewals. Ideas to increase membership were discussed. A free annual Friend’s individual membership will be included with the raffle beginning June. Howard gave the craft & vendor fair report. All pertinent files are in place for the fair. Art will create a flyer for display & distribution at the Library and name badges for Friends volunteers to wear on the day of the fair. Diane and Howard will pursue obtaining food donations. Karen itemized the publicity notices she sent out on 4/6; newsday, long island herald, your newsmag, news 12, merrick patch, merrick moms and long island.com. She will continue to send out weekly email ads until the fair date. Panera Bread fundraiser held on Monday, April 13 was discussed. Karen reported that Panera Bread stated any donation contributions would be received within 45 days after the event. This would be approximately the first week of June. At a future fundraising event of similar kind, Ellen suggested to increase Friends presence at the establishment and to increase publicity by posting on our Library blog. Volunteers are needed to sell raffles and membership at the Library for a couple of hours. Karen is maintaining a schedule for those who would like to volunteer. Current members are welcome to sign up. Ellen passed around the Friends newly created bookmarks for approval. One change was made. These bookmarks will be for distribution at the library circulation desk. The Friends Interim tax return will be submitted by May 15 by Tusa & Associates, CPA. Ellen submitted the invoice for the Long Island Children’s Museum in the amount of $2,565. This invoice was approved for payment at last month’s meeting. The next two meeting dates are Tuesday, May 12th @ 4:30 PM, and Tuesday, June 9th @ 4:30 PM. All Friends are invited to attend. The meeting was adjourned at 5:40PM. Respectfully submitted, Karen Tusa, MBA