1935-03-28City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 03/28/1935
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Katharine P. Loring, Marian P. Motley, Saul J. Cagan, Fred H.
Porter, James A. Cronin, Clarence S. Pond and Horace W. Woodberry. Jr..
Board members absent: Thomas F. Delaney and Robert O. Small
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
March 28, 1935
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the Library on Thursday, March 28,
at4p.m.
There were present at the meeting, Miss Loring, Mrs. Motley, and Messrs. Cagan, Porter,
Cronin, Pond and Woodberry.
The records of the meeting of February 28th were read and approved.
The Finance Committee presented a short summary of expenditures to date, and reported that
the budget had been granted: $19,483.00 for Salaries and $12,130.00 for maintenance.
The proposed schedule of minimum and maximum salaries, with step increases, for the
various positions on the Library Staff were then discussed in detail; and it was voted to adopt the
schedule presented by Mr. Small as a definite plan for future payments to members of the Library
Staff, it being understood that these figures should not effect any changes, at this date, in the salaries
now being paid to members of the Staff.
Voted: to incorporate in Mr. Small's schedule the present salaries for each position.
It was voted that at the discretion of the Board, part time assistants working regularly for a
minimum of at least thirty hours a week, should be granted two weeks vacation with pay each year,
-- the amount to be paid, to be the average weekly salary of the preceding year.
A letter was received from Mr. Frances Hartigan, requesting that the library Reading Room
be open to the public on Sunday afternoons during the winter months.
Voted: to lay the matter upon the table for consideration at some later date.
In response to a note received by Miss Stanton, from Miss Beatrice Leary, asking for part
time work as a Library Page, it was voted to employ Miss Leary, at 40 cts. per hour - this to be paid
from the Trust Funds - to supervise the E.R.A. library workers, her days and hours to correspond
with theirs.
It was voted to pay for the Christian Science Monitor, for the Main Library and Farms
Branch, from July 1st through December 3 1st, and to send to that Society the thanks of the Board of
Trustees for the gift of that newspaper for many many years.
Voted to adjourn.
Adjourned.
Marjorie H. Stanton
Secretary