MEETING –BOARD OF TRUSTEES
HIGHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
14 Elting Place
Highland, NY 12528
           Thursday November 19, 2020
MINUTES


CALL TO ORDER 5:00PM
In attendance: Laura Finch, Mark McPeck, Darlene Plavchak, Fran Brooks, Nancy Hammond, Eric Norberg, Melissa Burdash, Director Julie Kelsall-Dempsey 


Minutes:                September 24,  2020 Move to Accept-Laura, Second-Eric, Approve-All
Financial report:


1. Be it resolved to approve the warrants attached for operating expenses for the months of October (Move to Accept-Nancy, Second- Eric, Approve-All)  and November (Move to Accept-Fran, Second-Eric, Approve-All) 2020


2.  Be it resolved to accept the September (Move to accept-Eric, Second-Mark, Approve-All) and October (Move to Accept-Mark, Second-Nancy, Approve-All) 2020 financial reports as prepared by Rose Woodworth, accountant 


                                                
Director's Report:          HVAC-currently use Heckeroth for pipes, etc and TBI for roof unit. Looking for proposal from one place to do both. 
                        CLD reopening-going well. 
                        Food Drive-going well, still collecting. Some went to Community Action, rest will go to Police Dept for their Food Drive. 
                        Toy Drive-Dec for Police Dept
                        Food/personal items Jan-Feb
                        Mid Hudson Annual Meeting-done virtually. Eric and Julie attended. Budget is not looking great- 22% cut this year, don’t know what next year will look like. 
                        Current service status-Covid-County Exec Ryan spoke today-we are heading in the wrong direction in regard to Covid. Government buildings are closing or limited. Business owners are being urged to come up with a plan, go back to our practices in the earlier surge. We have had a couple of patrons without masks (staff does ask them to put them on). Looking to return to curbside service  plus other services by appointment only (browsing, copies, etc) after Thanksgiving. Computer use limited to 15 minutes, will be suspended after Thanksgiving.  CLD will also cut back to curbside/porch pick up only. We should have enough lockers to be able to do this without limits.
                        


Old Business:                   Updated sick leave in keeping with NYS law-withdrawn, keep current policy. 




New Business:                   NYS required Pandemic Plan-required by state for every public business. Must be in place by April 2021. Read over, send Julie any feedback, will revisit in January for approval.                 
                        


Standing Committees:      Facilities-No report          
                                                 Personnel-no report                                                                                                  
                                                 Trustee Training- no report
 


Friends Liaison- Leslie Benson/ Eric Norberg-  Board meeting was held virtually on Saturday. Membership letter sent out. Next meeting in February to discuss Spring Fundraiser


Public Comments


 Other
 Adjournment 5:24.