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 07/16/2025
Meeting was called to order by President Edward Erhart at 4:30 pm
In attendance: Ed Erhart, Sue Gilman, Sandy Blood, Heather Gogel, Allison Girod, Amy Nagel, Camilla Lulas, Tyler Soderlund
A motion was made by Allison and 2nd by Sue to accept the Secretaries report as written – Carried
A motion was made by Sandy and 2nd by Heather to accept the treasures reports as written. Carried
We received a check for $7500.00 from the Village of Cattaraugus
A motion was made by Sue, 2nd by Allison to accept the director report as written. – Carried
Old Business – We had 4 show up for the making of Butterflies
The IMS grant that we intended to try for was canceled for this year but will reopen in March of 2026
New Business – Discussion was held on the Clerks position that was recently vacated and the hiring of a new clerk
Sara has agreed to work for the month of July to give us time to interview and hire a new clerk
Amazon is giving us a 30% -40% discount on new books purchased for the library
A discussion was held on the DRI Project grant. Sandy, Sue and Ed have completed the application process and submitted it to NYS. If we qualify for this grant we will be able to complete the upstairs project.
Our next meeting is on August 27th, 2025. Reports are due by the 15th of August.
Meeting was adjourned at 5:30 pm.
Submitted by Sandy Blood