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January 2001 Board Minutes

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2000-2001 MEETING
NORTH SUBURBAN LIBRARY SYSTEM
22 January 2001 - 6:00 p.m.
System Center

1. CALL TO ORDER

President William Seiden called to order the regular January meeting of the Board of Directors at 6:05 p.m.

2. ROLL CALL

Directors Present: Bishop, Black, Caviness, Ente, Faber, Groh, Johnson, Kaplan, Roalkvam, Roth, Seiden, Sterling, Wallens

Directors Absent: Valauskas

President Seiden administered to the oath of office to David Bishop of Northwestern University.

3. ADDITIONS TO AGENDA

There were no additions to the agenda

4. CONSENT AGENDA

A consent agenda was not used in January

5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

a. Director Wallens moved to approve:

APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE 27 NOVEMBER BOARD MEETING (Exhibit 5.a.)

The motion was seconded and passed by voice vote.

6. TREASURER'S REPORT

There were no questions

7. NEW BUSINESS

None

8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

None

9. COMMUNICATIONS

President Seiden read a letter from the Illinois State Library commending Jan Hayes
and Mary Witt.

10. REPORT: SYSTE M DIRECTOR

a. Financial Reports

b. Monthly Milestones

c. Oral report

System Director Long reported that on March 26 there will be no NSLS Board
of Directors meeting, but rather two Town Meetings, one at 2:00 p.m. and one at 7:00 p.m. at the System Center. These Town Meetings will be facilitated by Maureen Sullivan and Marshall Keyes.

Ms. Long distributed a list of dates of upcoming meetings.

Sarah Long reported on the Campaign for Increased System Funding.

11. REPORTS

a. Officers

President Seiden announced the Award Winners for the upcoming Annual Banquet.

President Seiden noted that since there was such a short amount of time between the resignation of a board member and the January meeting, he would prefer to wait until the next meeting to conduct the election.

Director Wallens moved to:

DELAY THE ELECTION OF BOARD MEMBERS
TO THE FEBRUARY 26, 2001 BOARD MEETING.

Director Johnson seconded and the motion passed unanimously.

12. REPORTS: COMMITTEES, TASK FORCES, LIAison

13. REPORT OF CONSULTANT, ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY (Karen Muskopf)
ASSIGNED TO NSLS

No report

14. CALL OF REPRESENTATIVES

12. ADJOURNMENT

Director Johnson moved to:

ADJOURN JANUARY MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The meeting adjourned at 6:35 p.m.