Hello SWAN Board reps-
There was some discussion at the board meeting last week in ILA committees. The interest form is available online for ranking your choices.
https://www.ila.org/about/committees
There was some discussion about Public Policy Committee, Advocacy Committee, and others. I do know that Public Policy Committee tends to be the most popular one, and I was attending those meetings remotely up through Diane Foote's retirement. You can rank your 3 committee choices on the form.
Several SWAN Board members have participated in ILA on some level prior, so feel free to share your thoughts!
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
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Hi SWAN Board reps-
The Investment of Public Funds policy is posted on SWAN Support under the "Board Policies & Legal Documents" section. Here is a link to the policy that we will review at the March 17th meeting.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/policy/64796
I will be sending a calendar appointment update shortly for the meeting location to change from Bloomingdale to Thomas Ford Memorial Library.
One additional note: After Friday's meeting, Scott followed up on the bounced email statistic and there were some adjustments identified by IT & System Support Manager Ian Nosek. Those adjustments are being put into effect today so we hope to see those bounce numbers improve.
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hi SWAN Board reps-
The agenda and packet for Friday's February 17th meeting is now available. You can find the documents on the Support website below.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/92350
There are three sets of minutes for approval on the agenda-last month's board meeting, the COW meeting earlier this month, and I realized we needed to approve minutes for the October 2022 COW meeting.
I included a draft of the agenda for the March Quarterly meeting, which I am getting started with possible topics to present.
As a reminder, the meeting will take place at Blue Island Public Library.
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hi SWAN Board reps-
Happy New Year! The agenda and packet for Friday's January 20, 2023 meeting is now available.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/92349
The meeting will take place at Blue Island Public Library. If you have any questions about the packet, please let me know.
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hi SWAN Board reps-
Apologies for this late addition: I have the attorney comments on the drafted policy attached. I will bring printed copies as well.
There was some delay in getting a response from our firm Klein Thorpe Jenkins.
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hi SWAN Board reps-
The agenda and packet for Friday's December 16th meeting is now available. We will meet again at Homewood Public Library.
The packet contains an updated budget for next year, and we will discuss the employee sick leave policy, and a new policy for leave donation.
Both documents are posted on the link below:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/89019
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hello SWAN Board representatives-
The agenda and packet for the meeting on Friday are now posted. This meeting will be held at Homewood Public Library District, 17917 Dixie Highway
Homewood, IL 60430.
The packet has the completed financial audit for fiscal year 2022, so the packet is a bit large at 110 pages.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/89018
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hello SWAN Board representatives-
The agenda for Friday's SWAN Board meeting is posted, however, the packet posting is delayed. I am waiting on the financial audit final documents, which are expected this evening or tomorrow morning. Once we have those, I will send out a separate email to you.
The meeting agenda and information is posted under the link below:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/89018
For now, we are OMA compliant!
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hello SWAN Board representatives-
The agenda and packet for the meeting this week of the SWAN Finance Committee is now posted. The board committee reps are Tim, Jesse, and Colleen, and we will meet at SWAN headquarters on Thursday 1 p.m.
This budget packet is quite detailed and therefore has a packet page count of 75 pages.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/92395
I have included some questions at the beginning of the memo that came up during the drafting of the FY24 budget. I am sorry to say that I do not have a membership fees chart created yet-I am still waiting for tax data from the Cook County Treasurers Office.
You will see that the RAILS LLSAP grant award to SWAN was lower for FY24. I have included the award letter and a memo explaining why the grant formula lowered the amount to SWAN.
There are two SWAN policies included for discussion. I have nothing specific to change with those policies, but it is good practice to review them each year.
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hi SWAN board members-
The meeting for October 21st will be held at Thomas Ford Memorial Library. The agenda and packet are now posted.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/89017
There are two agenda items for discussion that I have provided background on within my Executive Director report. Those two agenda items are a "leave donation/leave sharing policy" for SWAN employees, and the orientation & engagement of new library directors in SWAN.
Please note that Tim Jarzemsky will not be able to attend the meeting on Friday.
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
