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LIBRARY BOARD OF THE
CORPUS CHRISTI PUBLIC LIBRARIES DEC 0 5 2008
April 8, 2008
CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE
MEMBERS PRESENT: Barbara Silverman, Andrea Naismith,Janey Cone,
Sue Stanford, Lucky McCracken, Roel Carmona, and James Martin
STAFF PRESENT: Herb Canales, Library Director and Lea Zapata, Management
Assistant
Meeting was called to order by James Martin at 1:15 p.m.
Janey Cone made a motion to accept the March 11, 2008,minutes. Lucy McCracken
seconded the motion, and it was approved by all.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY:
1. The Janet F. Harte Public Library is celebrating its 40`h Anniversary. There will
be an art opening and a program on Kemp's Ridley turtles and other programs for
children.
DIRECTOR'S REPORTS:
1. The Parkdale Branch Library building committee will meet today concerning
signage. We expect Parkdale to be closed for four to six weeks. Removal of books
and shelving to make way for carpet installation may delay the project. We do
have additional interest and mineral interest earnings to appropriate which come
to approximately$9,600.
2. The Southside Branch Library is tentatively scheduled to open the beginning of
November.
3. We submitted the library budget yesterday. It must be submitted to the City
Council by May. The budget is different from last fiscal year due to the new
branch coming online. We will have one more budget meeting. The public
hearings have not been set as of yet. Everything is the same except for the new
branch book budget and the speed of our computer network. We were able to get
the City's MIS department to pay for the additional cost throughout the end of this
fiscal year. Next year the cost for the faster network is our responsibility.
4. We are recommending joining the Loan Star card program where a member can
go check out books throughout the state at participating libraries. This year we
received $30,000 for books. If we participate at the highest level, we could have
received $19,000 more in the grant. The City Council will have to repeal the non-
resident fee.
5. Mr. Canales and George `Skip' Noe have suggested changing the names of the
Central Library and the Southside Branch Library. Mr. Martin made a motion to
recommend to the City Council to change the name of the Central Library to
La Retama Central Library. Ms. Silverman seconded the motion, and it was
approved by all. Dr. Carmona made a motion to recommend to the City Council
to rename the Southside Branch Library to the"Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia Public
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Library."James Martin seconded the motion. Andrea Naismith voted in favor.
Barbara Silverman, Lucy McCracken, and Janey Cone voted against.
Mary Christmas expressed her vote in favor for both name changes via email,
bringing the vote to 4 in favor and 3 against.
OLD BUSINESS:
1. Dr. A. N. M. Waheeduzzaman has resigned from the Board. Ms. McCracken
made a motion to accept his resignation from the board. Ms. Cone seconded the
motion, and it was approved by all. [Note: Only the City Council makes
appointments to City boards and commissions, thus this last motion]
The meeting adjourned at 2:12 p.m.