August 27, 2025
Call the meeting to order at 4:30 pm
Roll Call
Public Expressions
Approval of prior minutes
Treasurer’s report
Director’s report
Old business -New Clerk
New Business – Roll over CD’s
Meeting
Cattaraugus Free Library Board Minutes 08/27/2025
Meeting was called to order by President Edward Erhart at 4:40 pm
In attendance: Ed Erhart, Sue Gilman, Sandy Blood, Heather Gogel, Camilla Lulas, Tyler Soderlund
A motion was made by Sue and 2nd by Heather to accept the Secretaries report as written – Carried
A motion was made by Heather and 2nd by Sandy to accept the treasures reports as written. Carried
We have received the LISA Grant and the Cash grant from Systems
A motion was made by Sandy and 2nd by Cammy to allow Sue Gilman our treasurer to roll over all three of the libraries CD’s – Carried
A motion was made by Sue, 2nd by Heather to accept the director report as written. – Carried
Old Business – Emma Carpenter has been hired to fill the vacant clerk’s position.
The Summer reading program closed out with a magician and was a success.
We participated in two Farmers Markets and gave away a lot of books during the month of August
New Business – We are now set up as a prescription mail back center for the State. The employees have been trained to receive medications and how to return them to the state.
We have switched phone providers from Spectrum to DFT.
We received a chalk board from the school as a donation this will be used in the Children’s section of the library
We did a craft class this month and had 8 participants.
A motion was made by Sandy, 2nd by Cammy to raise the tax levi by $5000.00 to cover the payroll increases – Carried
A motion was made by Sandy 2nd by Ed We the Board of Trustees affirm that each of the costs to be funded with the grant award proceeds for the elevator are capital costs and therefore, as bonded funds, may not be used to pay for any other fees or costs not associated with this project. – carried
Our next meeting is on September 24th, 2025. Reports are due by the 12th of September.
Meeting was adjourned at 5:20 pm.
Submitted by Sandy Blood