Present:  Sheila Wilkie, President; Meridel Buscher, Vice President; Carolyn Kelly, Secretary; Lisa Johnson; Kathy Bray; Lori Schafer; and Chris Dawdy, Head Librarian

Minutes from the January meeting were read and approved.

Financial Reports were read and approved.

Head Librarian’s report indicated that during the month of January, we had 1264 patrons in the library; 2 adult program with 22 adults in attendance; 2 children’s programs with 22 children in attendance; 1491 items checked out; 481 items added to the shelves, with 13,580 items in the inventory; 215 patrons using the computers; 647 in-town patrons; and 162 out-of-town patrons.

Monthly bills were reviewed and approved for payment.

Old Business:  finalized plans for Scrapbooking event to be held March 1;  learned that the new website is up and running (www.brightonpubliclibrary.org); learned that we were overbilled for start-up costs and first year fees for Gatenet, so we will be receiving a refund from LCLS.

New Business:  discussed need for Board of Trustee inservice training; discussed plans for applying for an LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) grant; approved draft survey that patrons will be asked to complete for the LSTA grant; approved contacting Vintage Tech Recyclers to dispose of old computer equipment; approved purchase of magazine subscriptions for the library; directed the head librarian to develop a plan and proposal for increasing our usable space by replacing old shelves and storage equipment with more efficient library shelving;  next meeting will be Thursday, March 27, 2008.