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Library Board of Trustees <br />Minutes <br />DATE <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />Jeannete Torrnets — President of Lib Foundation Board <br />Sherry Edelstein — Board, former member of LBOT <br />Krista Bodine — Youth Services Supervisor <br />Helana Lechner — LBOT member at large <br />Carrie Cortiglio — LBOT, Vice Chair <br />Peggy Norris — Adult Services, Materials Management Supervisor <br />Heather Wiegand — LBOT Secretary <br />Library Director and Staff Report <br />• Capital — primarily two projects: <br />o Children's Depot — a bookable space for children's groups. Was too <br />small for story time (regularly get 60 kids) <br />o Carpet and paint for library building, RFP forthcoming now that <br />design is done (there will be some kind of closure when this <br />happens) <br />• Fines/Fees — budget $23,800 income. Have not collected fines/fees since <br />COVID <br />• State Grant will drop because of population decline due to fire relocations <br />• 84% of budget is personnel (typical proportion) <br />o 1 — 2 % higher than libraries in the benchmark — LPL pays well. <br />o Sharon's entire salary comes out of library budget <br />• Staffing comparison with libraries that service a roughly similar population <br />staff per 1,000 served (service area) and staff per 10,000 circulation <br />o We are on par for staff per 1,000 served, but a little low on staff per <br />10,000 circulation. <br />• Usage — visits per capita, on par with peers, but well higher than peers in <br />circ per capita <br />• Performance over time <br />o Circulation recovering to pre-COVID, but about 100K below 2019 <br />o Digital Circulation recovering but much more expensive than <br />physical materials <br />o Visits / Program Attendance <br />• Visits recovering post-COVID. <br />• Seeing people working remotely, study rooms and <br />carrels well -used. <br />• People are coming and staying longer than in the past <br />