Friends of the Merrick
Library
Minutes of Meeting March 8, 2016
The meeting was called to order at 4:35 PM by Chairperson,
Karen Tusa.
Present: Karen Tusa (President), Howard Schwartz
(Vice-President), Joan Sculli (Publicity Chairperson), and Ellen Firer (Library Director).
Minutes: The minutes of the February meeting were approved as
written.
Treasurer’s Report: Savings $6,948.14. Checking $210.30. Savings total income was $493.13 of
which $184.15 was book sale, $88.98 Better World Books, $24.00 raffles, $6 tote
bags, $15 sale of USB flash drives and $175 residentialmembership. There were
no expenditures. The Treasurer’s report was accepted as submitted.
Membership
Report: There are 63 residential
memberships of which 21 are overdue for the current year. A
volunteer/membership outreach notice was published in the Merrick Herald on
2/28 and 3/4. One email requesting
information was received in response. The notice will be resubmitted with a request to keep
running it. Howard has
continued to make renewal solicitations by phone.
Of the 158 business membership mailings, 16 have
resulted in sponsorship so far for a total of $960. The Friend’s blog linked to the Merrick Library web page was
updated with the business sponsors’ names. Bookmarks were updated with the
business sponsor names and were printed by Debbie Jones of the library
staff. Another business mailing
was made to 42 additional sites on 2/27.
Old Business: Karen, Diane and Howard participated in staffing the Friends table
prior to the Sunday library concert event on 2/28.
An acting
Secretary has not been appointed yet.
Thank
you to Liz Kranz, who has been calling Friends members who do not have email to inform them of meeting times
and Friends’ events.
Joan and
Karen will staff a Friends’ table for an hour before the Sunday March 13th
music program.
Diane and
Karen will staff a membership table at the 10 year Anniversary of the New
Library Event on April 10th.
Additional volunteers will be scheduled.
The annual
financial audit of the books of treasurer will be on 3/15 by Karen, Howard,
Marion and Diane.
Tax return numbers will be submitted to our CPA by 4/15 for a
5/15 filing deadline.
A discussion of the suggestion to change the meeting time to
6 PM was tabled.
A motion was made and passed to send a “thinking of you” card
to David Stayer.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:14 PM.
Next Meeting Dates: Tuesday at 4:30 PM on April 12th,
May 10th, June 14th and July 12th.
Respectfully submitted by Joan Sculli
