River Forest Public Library
Board of Library Trustees
Committee of the Whole Meeting
April 11, 2007

Call to Order
	President Mark Coe called the meeting to order at 7:32 p.m.

Roll Call
	Roll call was taken. Present at the meeting were Trustees Coe, Cusack, Daly, Fischer, Horstman, and Soffer. Trustee Ryan was excused.  Also in attendance were Interim Director Dee Brennan, candidates for Trustee Genie Halloran and Joan O’Connor and representatives from Holabird & Root, Maria Segal, Rusty Walker and Greg Marinelli.

Audience to Visitors, Trustee and Staff Comments
	Mrs. Daly asked Mrs. Brennan to express the Board’s appreciation of the staff’s hard work and terrific effort during this time of transition.

Old Business
A.  Master Plan Update
	Board members and those in attendance were given the “River Forest Public Library Comprehensive Planning Study” Draft created by Holabird & Root. Maria Segal gave an overview of the document, and Rusty Walker presented the plans for a long term vision. Project architect Greg Marinelli presented the document entitled “Phase I” which presented 3 strategies for allocating the capital improvement funding of $250,000 which is currently available. Each of these strategies would be in keeping with the long term plan.  
	 Board members posed questions to the architects and to Mrs. Brennan regarding both the long term vision and the short term decisions.
	The next step is for the Trustees to review carefully the document and come to the next meeting on April 17 prepared to discuss what the preferred course of action will be with regard to how to spend the $250,000. It may be that the final decisions will not yet be made. Also, Mr. Coe will forward a copy of the original proposal to the Village of River Forest for funding capital improvements.
B. Contract with Oak Park Public Library
	Mr. Coe reviewed with the Board the revision of the draft agreement with the Oak Park Public Library for support staff. There will be two appendices: Appendix A: Scope of the work by the Director and others, and Appendix B: agreement to pay $72/hour for ten hours of staff per week, at least initially. The number of hours may be adjusted.

Adjournment
	At 9:30 Mrs. Cusack moved for adjournment.  Mr. Soffer seconded. A vote was taken and the motion carried unanimously.

Respectfully submitted, Diane Daly, Secretary