Minutes
Morgan County Library
Board of Trustees
May 8, 2025
Present: Stacey Embry, Mary Jo Jackson, Kathy Jones, Ann Brinson, Melissa Hedrick.
Absent: Curtis Cunningham.
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Mary Jo Jackson at 5:45 p.m. It was held at 600 N. Hunter, Versailles, MO 65084.
Public Comment: Received a Thank You card from the Stover Animal Shelter for the donation of books.
Friends Report: Successful book sale, made $2088. Next meeting will be Thursday, May 15 at 5:30 PM at the library.
Minutes: Kathys moved, Melissa seconded, to accept the April minutes as submitted. Motion carried.
Vouchers/Financial Report: Current balance as of April 30, is $558,045.12. Kathy moved, Melissa seconded, to accept the report as presented. Motion carried.
Directors’ Report: Stem Kits are starting to check out. Touch a truck was extremely successful. Summer reading program kicks off May 28. An exterior or interior digital sign will not be pursued at this time. The cozy corner will have a selfie mural added.
Old Business: Two Asphalt bids were reviewed with milling and asphalt overlay. Ann made a motion to accept the bid for $52,000 from Willow Ridge to mill and apply an asphalt overlay. Kathy seconded. Motion carried.
New Business:
MPLS standards were reviewed. Areas for improvements are Services and programming and technology.
These items will be part of the Strategic Plan Review in June.
Incident report was reviewed.
Weather, Emergency, Non-Emergency Closing, removed the word “Tornado” from Emergency closings section, spelling correction of via, added AmerenUE website to report outage. Melissa made a motion to accept the corrections, Kathy seconded. Motion carried.
Emergency Plan, change near to present, change child to minor, and delete repeated stay calm. Melissa made a motion to accept the corrections, Kathy seconded. Motion carried.
Adjournment: Kathy moved, Melissa seconded, to adjourn at 6:45 PM. Motion carried.
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Mary Jo Jackson, President Ann Brinson, Secretary
These minutes approved as _____________________ on ________________________