1953-10-29 City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 10/29/1953
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Philip Rowe, W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Saul J. Cagan, Louisa V.
Conrad, and Carl Zeilon
Board members absent: John C. Birmingham, Russell P. Brown, Dorothy Cook, and Lawrence
E. Foster
Others present:
Recorder: Marion A. Brown
Beverly, October 29, 1953 7:00 o'clock
This Special Meeting was called primarily to come to a conclusion as to what to do with the
light fixtures. Present were Mr. Rowe, Mrs. Conrad, Mr. Cagan, Mr. Zeilon and Mr. Boyden.
Mr. Kenney, Acting City Electrician was asked to attend this meeting to express his ideas of
the fixtures. His opinion was that if these fixtures are installed we would be making a backward step
of a least 10 years. He discussed the Survey made by the Gas & Electric Co. and from the data that
was in his office he felt the Survey was in line and would give satisfaction, but as flush mounted
fixtures were requested instead of those recommended in the Survey he would suggest that a change
be made - to a fixture that would use slim line lamps or tubes as the fixtures we have cannot use them.
After Mr. Kenney left, a long discussion took place and finally Mr. Rowe and Mrs. Conrad
were authorized to make a change of fixture to one that would use a slim-line tube and not convert
the present fixtures. It was decided to keep 14 of these fixtures for Students Room, Office, Reference
Room and two Passageways, and it was voted pay for these from remaining $900 of Farms Janitor.
These are to be installed by an electrician - getting estimates from Fisher & George, McQueeny and
Joseph Greenlaw Co. it was voted to return all other fixtures and at next me~ting Nov. 19 start out
new. A letter was sent to Wolfers Co. explaining this - A letter by returned mail stated we must keep
these fixtures - They would not accept them.
Voted to pay Thompson Electrical Service Co. from Trust Funds.
Voted to pay Miss Kline' s tuition of $18 for a Winter course in Library Reference Work.
(Course caneeled - only a few taking it)
Voted to adjourn
Marion A. Brown
Clerk
Because of length of this meeting it was left until Nov. 3 to take up the matter of budget.