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x r� February 18, 1975 MINUTES CF BOARD MEETING, PARIS PUBLIC LIBRARY The Board of Directors for the Paris Public Library met in regular session, February 18, 1975, at 10 a.m. in the Library with Herschel McKinney, Fd_ix Gibson, Dee Cunningham, F. D. Mallory, 1119 Mrs. Marvin Gibbs. Mrs. Glynn Lowe, Ben Marable, Chairman;Mrs. Frank McClure, Mrs. Printis Ellis, Secretary; Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Lawrence, Librarians; and Harold Greene of the City. Absent were Robert Pierson, David Denney, and Dr, Courtney Townsend, Minutes of the January 21 meeting were read and approved as circulated. Gibson Moved financial statement for January be approved as circulated. Motion discussed and passed. Gibson reported March 10 had been set for a meeting of Librarians at Paris Junior College, with time and if a dinner session to be decided. After a discussion of the need to handle the $5000 CD at First Federal by February 28 when it is maturing, Gibson moved that $4000 of the amount be set up in 4 CDs for 30 months to bring 6 and 3/4 percent interest with $1000 set up for a year at 6 1/2 percent, in case the money should be needed. Motion was seconded, discussed and passed. Mrs. Lawrence concurred in the discussion. The Chairman appointed a committee of Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Lowe, and Mrs. Baker to decide where to plant the Crape Myrtle offered by Mrs. Walter Bassano and to move the one placed by the Garden Study Club in the middle of the lawn. After discussing the figures for new members of the Library - 513 for Paris and 290 for the County during 1974, the Chairman asked about the possibility of the Board members meeting with the Commissioners Court at their April session to ask for county assistance with the Library budget. The Chair- man asked that after the March 10 meeting of Librarians,that the Board members assemble facts and figures to present to the County Commissioners at their April Meeting. The Chairman asked for a discussion of the Long Range study of the Library proposed at the January meeting. A §uggestion was made that perhaps a new Friends of the Library could be organized. Gibson reported Eddie Sanderson was preparing an estimate of cost for repairing plaster and painting interior of the Library. He and Greene showed how another restroom could be built using the storage closet in the office. Meeting adjourned at 11 a.m. Mrs. Printis Ellis, Secretary approved.