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Elk River Public Library Board Page 2 <br /> March 26,2019 <br /> 111 <br /> a. Introductions of Commissioner and new board member Carole <br /> Boelter and Council Member Garrett Christianson, new Liaison to the <br /> Library board. <br /> • All the attendees of the meeting took turns introducing themselves to <br /> the new Commissioner and Council Liaison. Councilmember <br /> Christianson explained a little about his position at his job at UPS <br /> and asked the Library Board what they would like to know from him <br /> as far as what his reports should contain when contributing to the <br /> Library Board Meetings. <br /> b. Election of officers <br /> • Chair Stoffers nominated Commissioner Keifenheim to be the next <br /> Chair, Commission Dreissig to be the Vice-Chair and herself to be <br /> the Secretary. <br /> Moved by Commissioner Stoffers and seconded by Commissioner <br /> Eberley to approve the new officer positions. Motion carried 4-0. <br /> c. Calvin Portner, City Administrator for City of Elk River (board purpose <br /> and bylaws). <br /> • Mr. Portner explained some changes that will occur at future <br /> meetings. There will be a Department Director from the City at each <br /> Library Board Meeting. There will also be a binder that will go along <br /> with each Director from meeting to meeting with the list of board <br /> members, by-laws, the previous year meeting minutes, and the <br /> current meeting agenda packet. Mr. Portner has done some <br /> restructuring of the Public works and streets maintenance <br /> departments. He explained some of the details of this restructuring. <br /> He explained that Justin Femrite (Public Works Director/Chief <br /> Engineer) or Building Maintenance Supervisor Gary Lore would now <br /> be the one that would attend the Library Board Meeting in regards to <br /> buildings and grounds maintenance instead of Tim Sevcik (Street and <br /> Park Superintendent). Mr. Femrite would likely attend the July <br /> meeting. Lori Ziemer (Finance Director) would attend in regards to <br /> finance in May. Michael Hecker (Parks and Recreation Director) <br /> would also attend a meeting each year. Each Director will answer <br /> any questions they can at each meeting and get answers for any they <br /> can't within a 2 week period. <br /> • Bylaws, building grounds, and programming: Mr. Portner explained <br /> that Ms. Canter and Ms. Schake are responsible for the library <br /> programming. In May staff will work on a 2020 budget to go to <br /> Council in July. Ms. Schake asked the board that she would like to <br /> hear what kinds of programs and services they might like to see. <br /> Commissioner Eberley asked about getting the Elk River Current <br /> (information publication) and Mr. Portner explained that it was <br /> replaced a few years ago by online newsletters and that the City has a <br /> marketing team that is working on more forms of online/social <br /> • media marketing. They may also be working on some forms of <br /> marketing that combine online and paper. Chair Stoffers mentioned <br /> POWERED BY <br /> NATURE <br />