Meeting of the Library Trustees
Ossipee Public Library
Monday, January 14, 2019
Present: Maria Moulton, Alison Hayford, John Mingori, Denise Castle, Judy Perry, Dolores Connelly
Meeting called to order at 12:57pm
Next meeting: Monday, February 11 at 12:45pm
Secretary’s Report: accepted (JM, JP)
Treasurer’s Report: We discussed the appropriated funds and Maria explained that we will keep this in our account into the next year. Accepted (JM, DC)
Director’s Report: Judy Perry’s trustee term ends in March and she announced she will not run for re-election. accepted (JM, AH)
Old Business:
Donation- The Public Hearing date to accept the Rouner donation will be Tuesday, January 29th at 11:30am. Maria will post the hearing to accept the donation on the website, in the Conway Daily Sun, and at the library.
Chairs:
John will contact White Horse and Agape to see if they can pick up the brown chairs in the meeting room.
Maria offered some options for chairs. We discussed the need for them to be easy to clean, padded and able to be stacked at least 8 high. Maria will do more research and hope to make a decision at our special meeting arranged for the hearing.
Change to hourly employees:
John moved the following changes be added or amended to our personnel policy.
“Full Time Employees: An employee who works a min of 32 hrs. per week is considered a full time employee. Full time employees are eligible to receive benefits as described in the personnel policy.
Part time Employees: An employee who works less than 31 hrs. per workweek is considered a part-time employee. Part-time employees are not eligible for benefits described in the personnel policy.
Breaks are paid for both full and part time employees.
Snow days: When the library is closed due to inclement weather, full time and part time staff will be paid for the hours they were scheduled to work on that particular day.”
Judy seconded. Motion passed.
Ossipee Public Library Town Report
Report was amended to include the School’s Out Art Show and Artists’ Talk. John moved that we accept the Library Town Report for 2018 as amended. Judy seconded. Motion passed.
We will discuss the additions to the financial policy next meeting as well as discussions for the library’s future plan.
John moved to adjourn. Denise seconded.
Meeting adjourned at 2:42pm