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July 14, 1965
Minute s of the meetin g of the Board of Direct ors of the Skokie Public
y.
Librar y held at 7:30 p. m. in the Confer ence Room of the Librar
Memb ers presen t:
Conroy V. Ericks on, Mrs. W. C. Griffin , L. 0.
cher, Librar ian.
Green, Mrs. Daniel Petty, Rabbi Karl 'Weine r, Miss Mary Radma
Mr. L. 0. Green, Presid ent, presid ed.
on
Minute s of the previo us regula r meetin g were approv ed as read
motion by Mr. Eric kson, second ed by Mrs. Petty.
All ayes.
Motion by Mr. Ericks on second ed by Mrs. Griffin .
Motion :
That the financi al statem ents for the Genera l
Operat ing Fund and Reserv e Fund for the
Purchas~,;of-Sites and Buildin gs for the month.
of June, 1965, be accept ed.
All votes were affirm ative.
Motion by Mrs. Petty second ed by Mr. Ericks on.
Motion :
That the list of bills payabl e, as submit ted,
·
be paid.
All votes were affirm ative.
Circul ation Report for the month of June was distrib uted and the
Presid ent ordere d that it be placed on file.
from
Miss Radma cher called the Board 's attenti on to a letter receiv ed
ty purcha sed
Mr. Jerom e Muelle r sugges ting the balanc e of payme nt on the proper
Nation al
from W. M. Warde n Tyler Assoc iates be handle d throug h the First
Bank of Skokie .
After discus sion the Board decide d to do nothing at this time
ry, 1966 before
and Presid ent Green stated it would be wise to wait until Februa
be known.
taking action since at that time the outcom e of the referen dum will
y,
Discus sion was held of the meetin g with the Villag e Board on Monda
July 12.
ally
The questio n as to the date of the Refere ndum was consid ered especi
time in Novem ber after the Villag e Board recom mende d it should be set for some
possib ly arnund the 4th or 5th.
If Octobe r is still consid ered a better time, a date
�in that month can be arranged.
The consensus was to go along with the suggestion
of the Village Board and hold the Referendum November 9, 1965.
will so advise the Village Board.
Mr. Green
At present the figures are:
$830,000
87,000
Main Building
Equipment
640,000
278,000
40,000
Branch
Land
Furnishings
There was some discussion of the purchase price of the property and Mr. Green
·stated he would have Mr. Scott McDowell give a real good estimate of the
price of the site.
It was the consensus that plans for the promotional ca1npaign should b e
made immediately without any d'elay and plans made last Februai.ry should be
used at this time.
Brochure.
committee.
President Green asked Mr. Erickson to work on that
Brochures should not be mailed more than two or three weeks ahead
of the election date especially if there will be one mailing.
Miss Radmacher asked if the Board wanted to write any kind of series
of releases.
The answer was yes for the papers - one about the nicest things
said - explaining the need for expansion - and then build up from there.
begin with solid achievements.
It should
The first one should be about the schedule for
bookmobile stops and point out in the article the effect that the plans for expansion
and the library in the northern half of the community would have.
the bookmobile proves the need for this program.
Heavy use of
Article on earnings on invest-
ments should point out that this is money that has gone toward the purchase of
new books and purchase of land.
money was not being used.
publicized.
These investments were made while current
Only achievements that are genuine should be
Recommendation was made that the articles be prepared and sub-
mitted to the Board before they are released.
The President suggested by next
meeting they should be ready to submit to the Board.
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�Miss Radmacher and Mr. Green will arrange to meet with Mr. Hammond.
Mr. Erickson was asked to join the group.
There must be a certain amount of speaking and the Board will try to
allocate those engagements.
Miss Radmacher informed the Board there are
slides now ready for use.
The same· organizations that were asked to attend the December 13
meeting will be contacted.
Rabbi Weiner emphasized the time has come to sit down and have a timetable of every aspect of the campaign.
Brochure could be ready at next meeting,
'
newspaper articles ready for next meeting; and at that time draft a letter to
organizations and persons the Board could call to ask for an opportunity to talk
with their group or personnel.
Rabbi Weiner suggested another meeting be held for the same group who
attended in December and explain to them what is planned.
Miss Radmacher asked
if Sunday, September 12, would be a good date and it was agreed to hold the firs;c
public meeting in the Lecture Room on that date.
Mrs. Griffin recommended that
Rabbi Weiner carry through on this plan and he consented to do. so.
Canned speech was discussed an d recommendation made to contact local
radio stations.
Miss Radmacher will prepare all statistics, etc. for it.
Miss Radmacher put the question to the Board whether we were really
ready to use the date of November 9, 1965.
Mr. Green informed the Board the Borcia 1 s are moving September 1st
and plan to take the boiler out of the building.
wrecked immediately.
If this is done the building should be
Mr. Kaegi will request the Art Guild to move their building.
Miss Radmacher requested the attention of the Board be returned to the
brochure which Rabbi Weiner suggested having ready for next board meeting.
Mr. Green said he would work on it and a meeting of the brochure committee will
be arranged for next week.
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�Miss Radmacher informed the Board Mr. Roy Newquist is going to
give a talk for the Library this fall, probably in October.
Meeting adjourned at 9:20 p. m.
Secretary
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Petty, Selma (Secretary)
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library board meetings