1969-10-16O City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee: Budget Committee
Date: 10/16/1969
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Mieth Macset, Louisa V. Conrad, Robert W. Lovett, and Carolyn F.
Standley
Board members absent:
Others present:
Recorder: Florence A. Luther
October 16, 1969 3:30 P.M.
Budget Meeting
Present: Mr. Macset, Chairman, Mr. Lovett, Miss Standley and Mrs. Conrad.
The following budget was referred to the full Board for approval:
Books $20,000
Replacements 2,000
Periodicals 1,500
Binding 1,200
Fuel 2,500
Lighting 2,800
Telephone 900
Furniture 2,000
Repairs 1,000
Janitors Supplies)
Care of Grounds ) 1,800
Printing 250
Office Supplies 2,000
Book Prep. Supplies 2,500
Bookmobile 1,000
Audio Visual 500
Other Outlays
Architect's fee for planning 2,500
Painting interior 2,000
Add to Salaries:
Audio Visual Librarian XI
Pages 12,500
Custodians' overtime
snow removal., etc. 125
Books, Replacements and Periodicals necessary to meet State Aid. (This figure must be amount of
total budget times 0. 13 -excluding Capital Outlay from total budget figure. (0.25 x population
amount of State Aid)
Telephone. 1969 figure includes second phone at Main only since July. 1970 will be for a whole year.
Furniture. No allowance in 1969. Needs 6 tables for Children's Room. 1 telephone table gouged in
1968 vandalism, 2 desks and refinishing old tables in main reading room.
Janitors Supplies. Addition for custodians' uniforms - 3 men - plus snow blower and lawn mower for
Farms Branch.
Office Supplies. All costs increasing.
Periodicals. Additional monies should go into buying some important magazines on film. Storage for
additional bound and loose copies very limited
Book Preparation Supplies. Increase in Books and Replacements means more cards, labels, pockets,
plates etc. for processing of cards.
Audio Visual. All libraries are paying more attention to this phase. We should start to catch up.
Audio Visual Librarian. Step XI. Only limited services now available. Need full time person with
knowledge of cataloging, classification, and use of equipment,
Custodians' Overtime. This has appeared in Other Outlays under Snow Removal in the past and has
been transferred to Salaries during the year.
Pages. Impossible to hire at $.90 an hour any longer. College help refuses the $1.50 rate. Part-time
wage scale must be increased.
Other Outlays. Have been kept at a minimum hoping---expansion will be possible.