FRIENDS OF MUKILTEO LIBRARY
BOARD MEETING 12/6/2010
ATTENDING: Nancy Patton, Pat Colyer, Margaret Wright, Jane Dickinson, Diane Sterling, Mae-Ling Chin,
Barbara Hunt, Angie Oldershaw, Dianne Greenhouse, Jane Crawford, Kathleen Snyder
TREASURER'S REPORT: Jane D had major problems using Quicken on her computer. She has lost years
of FoML records and had to buy a new hard drive. The board sympathized with her and instructed her
to only worry about recovering records from 2010. Any prior information that we need we can get from
the paper records. Income for November was lobby book sales $904, one day book sale $1402 and
miscellaneous $75 for a total of $2381. Expenses totaled $1702 with $1000 of that going towards an
awarded scholarship. Nancy had the good news that the IRS has raised the income limit for filing
Form 990E to $50,000. This will make our return much easier to complete.
OLD BUSINESS: Jane C needs more floppy disks to sell at the circulation counter. Mae-Ling announced
that she had delivered 50 to the desk already. Also, Jane relayed that there is a new assistant managing
librarian, Christine Hoffman Hill, to cover Darren's position while he is temporarily in charge of the Lake
Stevens branch. It was decided to send Darren a congratulations card as he is a FoML member and
contributor. Barbara went over the arrangements for our potluck lunch Dec 13th. She and Margaret
have scoped out cold cuts and rolls at local grocers. Jane D volunteered to be in charge of the punch.
Barbara will have MaryAnn send out email invitations and Pat is mailing out the newsletter (with
renewal membership forms) which will also invite members to the luncheon.
The 2011 library wish list was passed out. The total requested was $12,650 which covers children, teen
and adult programming for next year. Angie moved that this request be incorporated into the 2011
Friends of the Mukilteo Library budget. Kathleen seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Pat
and Jane D will formalize the rest of the proposed budget which will be presented to the membership
for approval at our January program meeting.
There was discussion about our surplus funds. We currently have around $40,000 in the bank that is
available for special projects. The Sno-Isle Library System will be replacing its circulation and website
software over the next few months. After that is implemented, Mukilteo would like to transform the
teen area into a "student place" featuring a computer bar for laptops, more space and higher visibility
decor. The Friends would like to support that monetarily but no action will be taken until summer of
2011 at the soonest. The board wants its membership to be aware of where our funds used. Kathleen
suggested that the meeting minutes be more widely available. Nancy will post them on our page of the
website and Pat will bring a few copies to our program meetings.
NEW BUSINESS: We welcomed Diane Greenhouse to the board as our new membership committee
chairperson. She suggests that one of us speak about FoML at Kiwanis and other service organization
meetings to recruit members and educate our community about our role at the library. Margaret is
considering running for the board president next year. Barbara has an assistant to help her with her
hospitality duties. Three new members joined last month.
Diane moved and Margaret seconded that the meeting adjourn at 10:30 am.
Submitted by,
Kathleen Snyder