Minutes
Friends of the Bee Cave Public Library
President Kathy Albert called
meetinf to order at 1:30 pm. Welcoming
remarks and announcements followed.
Present were Kathy Albert, Barbara Hathaway, Elena Reid, Francis
Landreaux, Bev Plath, Lorna Harger.
Minutes from the March
meeting were approved.
Committee Reports
Treasurer: Awaiting completion of paperwork. Now that the non-profit filings with the
State and the Comptroller are completed, Treasurer Francis Landreaux will
proceed to open a bank account. Chase
Bank located in the Shops at the Galleria will be approached first. The account will require two signatures, that
of Treasurer and President.
Membership: Lorna showed
examples of cards from other Friends groups, with different categories of
membership for different prices.
Prototype will be created and circulated for approval. Addition of a business sponsor category was
approved.
Library Director: Barbara Hathaway reported on success of Grace
House outreach. Angela Palmer has been
doing a great job, with assistance of MOMS Club led by Vice-president Elena
Reid. Angela Palmer has been promoted to
full-time, benefited position. Angela
Palmer reported on library’s booth at Bee Cave Elementary Carnival: handed out information about Summer Reading
Program; people with no knowledge of
library’s existence still a problem. Upcoming
booth at Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce 2nd Annual Business
Showcase on Sat., May 5th from 10 am to 4 pm. Friends will provide someone to be there at
least part of the day, and will create brochure or other membership
information. Fishbowl to solicit
business cards will be available.
Further discussion was had on
ideas for raising profile of library, including storytimes at Starbucks.
New Business
Book Sale will take place on
Sat., June 2nd, the day after the Library’s Summer Reading Program
officially begins. Kathy presented
design for book bag, which will be sold for $10 plus as many books as it can
hold. The initial order is for 100
bags. A silent auction is planned, local
performing groups will be invited to perform, and other ideas were discussed to
try to draw the community to the sale.
Francis will pass out flyers at Rotary, and the Chamber of Commerce
should be approached to help as well.
Kathy asked each member to print out and distribute flyers to local
stores, etc.
Web site will be
updated. Notify Kathy of any suggestions
or changes.
Yahoo Group has been set up,
and will be used for discussion of upcoming events, etc.
Meeting adjourned at 2:40 pm.