2001-01-06
* *OFFICIAL MINUTES
APPROVED BY THE LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS
1 CITY OF SOUTHLAKE
2 LIBRARY BOARD MEETING
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4 January 6, 2001
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6 MINUTES
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8 Board Members Present: Maria Cameron, Chair; Marge Zielke, Vice-Chair; Brent
9 Burford, Debbie Baynard, Karen Cienki, Scott MacLeod, Peggy Firestone
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11 Staff Members Present: Terry McLaughlin, Library Administrator, Steve Polasek, Deputy
12 Director of Community Services.
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14 Visitors Present: Lynne Handy, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Library
15 System.
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17 Regular Session:
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19 Agenda Item No. 1, Short and Long Range Planning.
20 The meeting was called to order by Chair Maria Cameron at 9:07 a.m. at the Southlake
21 Senior Activity Center.
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23 Reports:
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25 None were given at the meeting.
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27 Discussion:
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29 The Library Administrator, Terry Mc Laughlin, introduced Lynne Handy, the Director of
30 the North Texas Regional Library System (NTRLS), who gave a short speech describing
31 the function of NTRLS to the Board members.
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33 Each of the Library Board members present introduced themselves and gave their reasons
34 for being on the Library Board and expressed their interests, desires and concerns for the
35 library.
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37 Steve Polasek, Deputy Director of Community Services, served as the moderator while
38 the Library Board discussed the Goals and Mission of the Library Board, and worked to
39 develop an overall vision for the Southlake Public Library for the next ten years.
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41 Questions raised by Board members, City Councilman Rex Potter and the roles of the
42 Friends of the Library and the Southlake Library Foundation were covered in this session.
43 Several points of discussion concerning Federal and State legislation were brought up by
44 the Board and addressed by Ms. Handy.
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Library Board Special Meeting 1
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*OFFICIAL MINUTES
APPROVED BY THE LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS
1 A general consensus of opinion was reached by the Board with regards to the Strategic
2 Plan vision statement, library goals, timeline, and general plan of operation. Mr. Polasek,
3 as the meeting moderator, agreed to provide a summary of the points expressed during
4 the meeting in the form of a draft Strategic Plan. The draft Plan would be submitted to
5 the Library Board at their January 24, 2001 meeting for further review.
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7 Adjournment:
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9 The meeting was adjourned at of 2:07 PM
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15 M is Cameron
16 Library Board Chair
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19 Attest:
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23 Terry McLaughlin
24 Library Administrator
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Library Board Special Meeting 2
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