Next Meeting: February 12, 2020
Noon
Library Hot Picks Room
MINUTES of the Regular Meeting of the Pitkin County Library Board of Trustees on
January 8, 2020.
ROLL CALL: Trustees present: Barbara Reid, Barbara Smith, Austine Stitt, and John
Wilkinson. Also present was alternate trustee Elizabeth Nix. Judy Wrigley, Judi Harris, and
John Keleher were not present. County Librarian Kathy Chandler attended as did staff members
Martha Durgy, Susan Keenan and Carol McArdell.
Mike Tunte, land architect and construction manager of the Parks Department attended together
with City Facilities and Property Manager Jeff Pendarvis and consultant for the City of Aspen
Kathleen Wanatowicz. Architect Charles Cuniffe was present as well.
PUBLIC COMMENT: There was no public comment.
TRUSTEES’ COMMENTS: There were none.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Barbara Reid moved that the Minutes of the November 13, 2019,
meeting be approved as submitted. Austine Stitt seconded. The motion carried unanimously.
OLD BUSINESS: Mike Tunte reviewed the landscape design work proposed for the Galena
Plaza. He presented various options and responded to questions and concerns from the Board
and the staff. This input will be useful for the two workshops to be held January 22. At this
point, Mike Tunte, Jeff Pendarvis, Kathleen Wanatowicz, and Charles Cuniffe left the meeting.
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT: Kathy’s annual evaluation needs to be submitted to the County.
Austine Stitt moved that the Board move into Executive Session. Barbara Smith seconded this
motion which passed with no dissent. After discussion, Barbara Smith moved to end Executive
Session. Barbara Reid seconded this motion which passed unanimously.
NEW BUSINESS:
Barbara Smith made the motion to establish the front display case of the library for posting
notices of Library Board meeting agendas for the new year. Elizabeth Nix seconded the motion.
All voted in favor.
The Board discussed establishing public exhibits for portions of the year in the Library
Commons. Kathy and staff will look into the idea of finding out more about the ALA and the
Library of Congress traveling exhibits.
Kathy said that there is the possibility of positioning a jigsaw map of the County in the library.
She may also look into a topographical map for the inside curved wall at the Galena Plaza
entrance side of the library.
Kathy also reported that 19 events were held at the library during Aspen's 12 Days of Christmas.
The events were very successful with a total of 341 people attending.
Kathy has more information about library fines. If any Board member would like to see the
information, please let Kathy know, and she will send the details to you by email.
Barbara Smith is going to submit some landscape comments to John Wilkinson. John will send
these comments on to the Board for review and then on to Mike Tunte, who is the landscape
architect for the City’s Galena Plaza project. Mike requested that we submit comments ahead of
the City’s January 22nd meeting about the Plaza design at the library.
FUTURE MEETING DATES
February 12
March 11
April 8
May 13
June 10
Meeting adjournment was at 1:50pm. Proposed by Barbara Reid and seconded by Barbara
Smith. All were in favor.
Respectfully submitted,
Austine N. Stitt and Barbara Reid
Acting Secretaries