FOL Board Meeting Minutes for October 5, 2019

Meeting called to order at 1pm by Marilyn VanNote.  Those in attendance:  Tom Hill, Marilyn Van Note, Angela Glowcheski, John Rogers, Jan Colpitts, Catherine Hill and Joan Hill.

Tom Hill read the minutes from the last meeting and they were approved as read.

Tom Hill gave the treasurer’s report.  We received  a grant from Cobb EMC for $1500 to be used for the setting up of Little Libraries. He also mentioned he had set up a PayPal account through Friends for people to pay their dues electronically at no cost to Friends.

Anglea G.  gave the Directors report.
  Holiday Dates 
    HF            12/2
    BG/WPL   12/3
    RTJ           12/4
    RC             12/5
 State funding is down 4% this year.  Funding expected to be down to 17% in 2021.
HF renovation is on going.

Catherine Hill thanked everyone for all the help at the HF sale.  

Marilyn lead a discussion of the preparation for the WPL book sale.  Jan checked on folks who were signed up to work.  With the Saturday closing of the library we will work on Sunday this time.

We have a new liaison for Ball Ground and a new liaison for WPL.

FOL Christmas Tree will be set up on November 11 at 11am.  It will be taken down on January 7 at 11am.

2020 Book Sale dates

RTJ              January 23,24,25

WPL             March  19,20,21
Other dates are to be determined.   Other meeting dates for the board are to be determined.

Marilyn to contact Tammy Lynn about the speaker for the annual meeting.

Meeting adjourned.