Winston County Librarian, Beth Edwards, appeared before the Louisville Board of Aldermen, Tuesday evening, July 16, at their regular meeting, to give an update on library traffic from February through June of this year, as follows:
• Circulation: 24K or 4.8K/month.
• Attendance in Library: 38K or 7.6K/month.
• Programs at Library: The public used the meeting room on 38 occasions with 1.1K people attending these events.
• In-house Library Programs: 21 programs for children with 1.4K attending; eight programs for adults with 197 attending.
• School Visits: 12 visits with 1.1K attending.
• Public Access Computers: 2.9K users for a total of 2.7K hours (an average of 591 users/month, 555 hours/month).
• Dial-A-Story: 502 callers.
• Home Book Delivery: 145
Edwards also mentioned a blood drive to be held at the Library on Friday, July 26 from 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
In other action, the Board:
• Voted 5-0 to adopt the final resolution of tax exemption for Polo Custom Products for five years on $312.5K of personal property.
• Voted 5-0 to approve the Solid Waste proposal with Waste Pro of Meridian at $7.378/cart.
• Voted 5-0 to authorize publication of Solid Waste notice for 2017-2018.
• Voted 5-0 to approve Neel Schaffer Master Services Agreement.
• Voted 5-0 to add military leave to the City’s personnel policy.
• Voted 5-0 to appoint James Russel Wilson to the Louisville Utility Board.
• Voted 5-0 to appoint Paul Hogue to the Zoning Board.
• Voted 5-0 to appoint Glen Haab to the Tourism Board.
• Voted 5-0 to acknowledge the certification of Municipal Court Clerk Kayla Rogers.
• Voted 5-0 to accept the letter of resignation from James Coleman from the Street Dept.
• Voted 5-0 to accept the recommendation by LFD Chief Johnny Haynes to hire Quentin Stephens as a full-time firefighter at a rate of $15.97/hour.
• Voted 5-0 to authorize payment to Aline Haynes for $1.4K for catering Chief L.M. Claiborne’s retirement reception.
• Voted 5-0 to authorize payment to Cups n Cakes for $128.40 for Chief L.M. Claiborne’s retirement reception.
• Voted 5-0 to authorize Mayor Will Hill to sigh the grant agreement with MDOT for a Multi-Modal Airport Grant to renovate a corporate hangar, to receive grant funds of $157.5K, with the City & County each matching $1.6K.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the City of Louisville Board of Aldermen is Tuesday, August 6 at 5:30 p.m.
