6.6. LIBSR 11-17-2015 - Laserfiche WebLink

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kiouit- u1/5 Patron Services Supervisor Report To: Elk River Library Board CC: Will Hollerich, LSC From: Brandi Canter, PSS Date: September 22, 2015 Strategic Plan Process During the summer our new Executive Director, Karen Pundsack, led a series of community meetings and staff feedback sessions to gather feedback for use in drafting a new strategic plan. We are also wrapping up user/non-user surveys to determine what kinds of services our patrons use,and what might help us get more community members to use our services. In the coming weeks the Leadership Support team (Executive and Associate Directors, Accountant and Patron Service Supervisors) will begin compiling the feedback into a new Strategic Plan that we expect to present to the GRRL Board of Trustees at its November meeting. GRRL Board and Budget The GRRL Board or Trustees (BOT) met July 21 for a regular meeting and passed a 2016 budget with a 2% overall increase. As a result of this budget, GRRL will be able to make some much needed changes. We will be hiring an additional full time computer analyst position, enabling us to keep up with online security concerns and move forward with some much-anticipated updates to our online catalog. We will also be adding more benefits for aides — two holidays and three days of paid time off(PTO) — as well as implementing a Senior Library Aide pilot project for some of our smaller branches. In addition, some Trustees expressed interest in reviewing the Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) which details the decision making and budgetary responsibilities of the BOT. Trustees discussed the JPA at their August work session, and as a result the BOT will be creating a Finance Committee to work more closely with GRRL Administration in the development of GRRL's annual budget.